Google announced five new ways to help users find accurate information more easily and to combat the spread of misinformation online. One improvement is the “About this result” feature soon available in all languages where Search is offered. This feature aims to help users assess information and its origin. When searching on Google, users will … continue reading
With all the uptake over AI technology like GPT over the past several months, many are thinking about the ethical responsibility in AI development. According to Google, responsible AI means not just avoiding risks, but also finding ways to improve people’s lives and address social and scientific problems, as these new technologies have applications in … continue reading
Replit announced a partnership with Google Cloud to provide cloud infrastructure and services to Replit users. Standalone chat LLMs don’t have a project’s context and can’t be used to their full potential until they’re brought into an IDE, according to the Replit team in a blog post. The new partnership with Google Cloud aims to … continue reading
Google announced new APIs and products that make it easier, safer, and more scalable to start building with Google’s AI models through Google Cloud as well as a new prototyping environment called MakerSuite. For developers experimenting with AI, Google has released the PaLM API, which can be used to build on top of the company’s … continue reading
Google has recently announced that the company will be making the OpenXLA Project available for use and contribution. This includes the XLA StableHLO and IREE repositories. OpenXLA is an open-source machine learning compiler ecosystem that allows developers to compile and enhance their models from ML frameworks in order to provide improved training and serving on … continue reading
Google prides itself on its initiatives regarding security in the Android ecosystem. Over the past year it has made a lot of strides, and now the company is detailing its plans for the upcoming year. One of the areas for improvement is opening up spaces for developers to support each other. It has opened up … continue reading
The new ability to see datasets in search results is aimed at helping scientific research, business analysis, or public policy creators get access to data quickly, according to Natasha Noy, research scientist, and Omar Benjelloun, software engineer at Google Research in a blog post. Google search engine users can click on any of the top … continue reading
The team at Google has recently introduced Service Weaver, an open-source framework for building and deploying distributed applications that allows users to write apps as a modular monolith and deploy them as a set of microservices. Service Weaver is made up of two core pieces. The first is a set of programming libraries which allow … continue reading
You may be familiar with the quote “software is eating the world,” but as of late it seems more like “ChatGPT is eating the world.” Ever since its public debut, it’s dominated front pages of the news, sparked many conversations about how AI will shape the future, and if you look at the trending page … continue reading
Google recently announced that Bard, its new experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA, has been opened up to select testers before it becomes more widely available in the coming weeks. Bard is intended to foster the combination of knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of Google’s language models. The AI service utilizes information … continue reading
Google is continuing its work to keep personal data safe with the announcement of new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). Over the last decade the PETs it has invented include Federated Learning, Differential Privacy, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). From the company’s standpoint, this allows them to protect users’ personal data while also continuing to provide the … continue reading
With less than 20% of the world’s population speaking English as their first or second language, Google is ramping up the efficiency of video voice dubbing with technologies for cross-lingual voice transfer and lip reanimation using deep learning and TensorFlow. The first technology keeps the voice similar to that of the original speaker and the … continue reading
