At a splashy media occasion this week at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google introduced 4 new Pixel telephones. However an important 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 digicam options that enable Pixel house owners to simply add their very own picture to a bunch shot after they’ve taken the photograph, or to change a photograph completely by altering evening to day and including objects that have been by no means actually there. It’s an exploration of our limits—how convincingly expertise can deliver alternate realities to life, and the way a lot of the computer-generated surroundings we are able to tolerate.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior evaluations editor Julian Chokkattu joins the present to speak about Google’s fancy new photograph methods. We additionally discuss Gemini Reside, the newest iteration of the corporate’s AI-powered voice chatbot. Lastly, we ask the un-askable: Is Google Assistant lastly lifeless, or simply banished to Google’s attic?
Present Notes
Learn extra about all the brand new updates from the Made By Google occasion, together with Google’s Pixel digicam updates. Find out how the corporate is utilizing AI to reshape actuality. There are some doubtlessly life-saving new options on the Pixel Watch 3. Additionally learn Reece Rogers’ WIRED story about ChatGPT’s superior voice mode and Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker story about tweens and Sephora.
Suggestions
Julian recommends folding flip telephones. Lauren recommends Colorscience Sunforgettable Whole Safety Face Defend Flex SPF 50 sunscreen lotion. Mike recommends the audiobook model of All Fours by Miranda July. (You may take heed to it in Spotify Premium.)
Julian Chokkattu might be discovered on social media @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the principle hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Photo voltaic Keys.
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