Biggest
announcements from Google I/O 2018
Google
just wrapped up its 2018 I/O keynote. CEO Sundar Pichai kicked things off by
recognizing that the tech industry must always be responsible about the tools
and services it creates. From there, the big announcements started and just
kept coming. We’ve got a new, ambitious Android update on the way. John Legend
is lending his voice to Google Assistant. Gmail
can almost write emails entirely by itself. AI was a big theme throughout.
Making natural Conversation
between the Robot and the Humans seamlessly.
Smart Compose.
ANDROID P for the next billion
users
Goodbye,
three-button navigation. Hello, digital wellbeing Dashboard.
Key
interactions like changing apps are now accomplished through iPhone X-like
gestures.
What is Digital wellbeing
Dashboard?
And
there’s a new Dashboard that’s meant to plainly show “how you’re spending time
on your device, including time spent in apps, how many times you’ve unlocked
your phone, and how many notifications you’ve received.”
Google Assistant
A
new way to interact with the smartphone that can do anything for you, even book
appointments hair saloon on behalf.
Google’s
virtual assistant is getting some more voice variety.
John
Legend voice is also coming to Assistant later this year and also 6 new voices.
GOOGLE DUPLEX
Perhaps
the most jaw-dropping moment of today’s keynote came when Sundar Pichai played
back a recording of Google Assistant calling a hair salon and making an appointment in a
conversation that legitimately sounded like two humans talking to each other.
SMART DISPLAYS WITH GOOGLE
ASSISTANT COMING THIS SUMMER
A
display with the google assistant combine make your work half than you do at
your home. Like making appointment, making food order delivery to at your door
step and even more like switch on the Light, Tv, Ac, with just your voice
interactions etc.
Amazon’s
Echo Show is about to face some competition from similar devices running
Google’s software.
GMAIL CAN NOW DRAFT EMAILS FOR
YOU (ALMOST) BY ITSELF
Google
is expanding on its helpful Smart Reply feature with a more ambitious
idea: Smart Compose.
Smart Compose uses AI “to help you draft emails from scratch, faster.”
GOOGLE MAPS IS GETTING WAY MORE
SOCIAL AND IT’S ADDING AUGMENTED REALITY DIRECTIONS
Point
your camera in a direction, and Google will pair AI with Street View data to
give you an interactive, AR turn-by-turn experience when you’re on the move.
There’s even a cute little fox to help keep you on course.
GOOGLE PHOTOS GETS EVEN SMARTER
EDITING POWERS
Google
Photos is gaining new features like the ability to separate subjects from the
background in photos and pop the color or turn the background black and white.
GOOGLE NEWS — NOW CURATED BY AI
it
uses artificial intelligence to analyze all the content published to the web at
any moment, and organize all of those articles, videos, and more into
storylines. It spots the ones you might be interested in and puts them in your
briefing.”
GOOGLE LENS CAN COPY TEXT FROM
THE REAL WORLD INTO YOUR PHONE
You’ll
be able to point your phone’s camera at text in the real world — say, a written
down Wi-Fi password — grab that text, and then paste it into a text field on
your smartphone.
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