Google teases new AI-powered Google Lens trick in feisty ChatGPT counter-punch

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It’s another big week in artificial intelligence in a year that’s been full of them, andGooglehas teased a new AI feature coming to mobile devices just hours ahead of itsGoogle I/O 2024event – where we’re expecting some major announcements.

Asocial media postfrom Google shows someone asking their phone about what’s being shown through the camera. In this case, it’s people setting up the Google I/O stage, which the phone correctly identifies.

User and phone then go on to have a real-time chat about Google I/O 2024, complete with a transcription of the conversation on screen. We don’t get any more information than that, but it’s clearly teasing some of the upcoming reveals.

As far as we can tell, it looks like a mix of existingGoogle LensandGoogle Geminitechnologies, but with everything running instantly. Lens and Gemini can already analyze images, but studying real-time video feeds would be something new.

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It’s all very reminiscent of the multimodal features – mixing audio, text, and images – thatOpenAIshowed offwith its own ChatGPT botyesterday. ChatGPT now has a new AI model called GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o), which makes all of this natural interaction even easier.

We’ve also seen the same kind of technology demoed on theRabbit R1AI device. The idea is that these AIs become less like boxes that you type text into, and more like synthetic people who can see, recognize, and talk.

Based on this teaser, it looks likely that this is the way the Google Gemini AI model and bot is going. While we can’t identify the smartphone in the video, it may be that these new features come to Pixel phones (like the newGoogle Pixel 8a) first.

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All will be revealed later today, May 14: everything gets underway at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, which is May 15 at 3am AEST. We’ve put together a guide tohow to watch Google I/O 2024online, and we’ll be reporting live from the event too.

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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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