At a splashy media occasion this week at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google introduced four new Pixel phones. However a very powerful stuff unveiled on the Made By Google occasion wasn’t the {hardware} itself, however quite all the generative AI instruments packed into the gadgets.
Most notable are some AI-powered camera features that enable Pixel house owners to simply add their very own picture to a gaggle shot after they’ve taken the photograph, or to change a photograph fully by altering night time to day and including objects that had been by no means actually there. It’s an exploration of our limits—how convincingly know-how can carry alternate realities to life, and the way a lot of the computer-generated surroundings we will tolerate.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior critiques editor Julian Chokkattu joins the present to speak about Google’s fancy new photograph tips. We additionally discuss Gemini Dwell, the most recent iteration of the corporate’s AI-powered voice chatbot. Lastly, we ask the un-askable: Is Google Assistant lastly useless, or simply banished to Google’s attic?
Present Notes
Learn extra about all the new updates from the Made By Google event, together with Google’s Pixel camera updates. Find out how the corporate is utilizing AI to reshape reality. There are some doubtlessly life-saving new options on the Pixel Watch 3. Additionally learn Reece Rogers’ WIRED story about ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker story about tweens and Sephora.
Suggestions
Julian recommends folding flip telephones. Lauren recommends Colorscience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 sunscreen lotion. Mike recommends the audiobook model of All Fours by Miranda July. (You may hearken to it in Spotify Premium.)
Julian Chokkattu could be discovered on social media @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the primary hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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