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Want to buy a Starbucks before work? Turn photos into PDFs? Can't tell the difference between left and right when walking? Tired of being at home and don't want to tell stories to your kids? No problem, Google has it all for you!
At 10:00 a.m. Western Time on May 8, Google's annual developer conference, Google i/o, was held in Mountain View, with 7,200 attendees this year. How hot is Google's conference? Xiao Tan's colleagues in Mountain View were blocked for 40 minutes without getting on the expressway. Originally, this section only took 5 minutes...
If the theme of last year's Google Developers Conference was: AI first, this year's theme can be said to be Redefine with AI. AI successfully became the only theme of the conference, and even VR/AR did not show up.
How can artificial intelligence help special groups?
Before the opening of the Google conference, a video was played at the venue, and the subtitle at the end of the video was: Let's make good things together.
Indeed, this year's Google conference has emphasized social responsibility from the very beginning. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the first area of artificial intelligence to change, that is, medical care.
Pichai said that Google has done a lot of field tests in India to help places where medical resources are scarce and get more specialized medical resources.
For example, AI is helping doctors around the world detect and diagnose cardiovascular disease by performing retinal scans. By scanning a patient's eyes, artificial intelligence can determine the patient's age, gender, and even whether people smoke, to find out more about potential health risks in the human body.
In addition, Google uses AI to predict medical events, scanning more than 100,000 data points for each patient, which gives doctors at least 24-48 hours in advance to take action and make a faster diagnostic response.
Pichai also announced two features for people with disabilities. First, the Google Input method Gboard will support Morse code. Some disabled people who have lost the ability to speak, as long as their fingers can move, they can be read by Morse code machines and then formed into words. Adding Morse code to Google Keyboard makes it easier for more people with disabilities to communicate with friends and family.
Not only the hearing-impaired, but even normal people, when watching TV debates, are they unable to distinguish who is who from the voices of multiple people on TV? Google announced that it has been able to separate the audio of different commentators on TV using machine learning.
All of this needs to be supported by Google's latest processor TPU3.0. The new TPUs are so powerful that Google had to build liquid cooling units in their data centers.
Not only the disabled, but also for the elderly and children, the product updates announced by Google at the conference reflect two words: caring.
Children want to hear stories? No problem, Google has accumulated 130,000 hours of children's stories, as long as children say "please" and "thank you" to Google Home, they can wake up Google Home to tell stories. To a certain extent, Google also hopes to teach children to be kind to others through the "request" function (Pretty Please), even to the robot, but also to say "thank you".
At the conference, a video of a grandma calling Google in various ways to Google Home made everyone laugh, from Hey Google to Hey Gogo to Hey Gago. Next time, never again. Google launched the "Continued Conversation" feature, so users don't have to face that little machine every time, I'm calling you thousands of times... Of course, this feature applies to all users.
Another area that is being transformed by AI, Google hopes, is journalism. Google proposed to invest $300 million in cooperation with news media over the next three years to improve the quality of news.
There is a small function, but the scout thinks it is very important. That is, in the future, when you read news on Google, it is no longer a single article. For example, the recent meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea, you can see on one page what happened a month ago, three months ago, or even a year ago. what.
From retouching pictures to recognizing the way, Google helps you solve small life bugs
At today's developer conference, many new features are small, but they do change the lives of users in subtle ways. It is no wonder that in every section, there will be enthusiastic cheers from the audience.
Judging from Gmail, the product with the largest number of Google users, every time you send an email, is there always some unavoidable opening greeting? For example, "How are you?" "It's a pleasure to chat with you" and so on. Gmail can already help you with associative memory, as long as you type "today", it may display the second half of the sentence: Are you okay?
Using mobile phones to pat and pat may have become a necessity of our lives. Today, more than 5 billion images are viewed on Google Photos every day.
If you go to a friend's wedding and take a lot of pictures, Google can provide suggestions for sending pictures, who you should send them to, and choose them automatically; if the picture is underexposed, AI will provide a suggestion to automatically adjust the brightness, and accept it with one click Just do it. You said, what about those color grading apps...
By discovering that people love scanning old photos, Google also introduced a one-click "restore color" feature. In this way, your old photos can be turned into color. Even, you can remove the background color of color photos to better highlight the subject in the photo.
If Xiao Tan said that there is a function, it is really like, one-click to convert photos into PDF format, that PDF conversion APP can finally be uninstalled...
Is it always impossible to tell the difference between east, west, north and west when you go out? However, you can always tell the difference between left and right! So, Google Maps has been revised to provide camera-assisted walking navigation.
What does it mean, as long as you turn on the camera, the map will tell you whether to turn left or right, and you don't have to worry about going south or north again. However, the meeting did not disclose when the latest version will be available.
Artificial intelligence assistant, more like a human
Google Assistant can be said to be Google's most important artificial intelligence assistant. Judging from this developer conference, Assistant has changed a lot.
First of all, from the perspective of sound, it is more humanized, not only with 6 kinds of voices, but also with the voice of the famous American R&B singer John Legend! (All of me soundtrack should be here....)
From a functional point of view, the new functions provided by the small assistant also greatly optimize our daily life.
For example, when I go to work, I want to buy a cup of coffee from Starbucks, no problem. Just say: Hey Google, show me the Starbucks menu. Choose from cakes to coffee varieties. In addition to Starbucks, it also cooperates with many chain fast food restaurants such as 7-11, Domino, Dunkin Donuts and so on.
You've ordered your coffee. Want to make an appointment for a beauty salon before you get off work? Also can. About 60% of small merchants don't have an online reservation system, but as long as they have a phone, they can book for you, Pichai said!
Note that this is the smart assistant calling the hairdresser, and you don't need to speak at all. For a specific time period, let the assistant talk to the store owner.
In addition to making restaurant and beauty appointments, you can also make appointments with doctors. This calling technology is called Duplex. You said, in the future, will the booking system just chat with the robot, and there will be nothing to do with humans?
From the data point of view, Google Assistant has now supported more than 5,000 home devices, 40 car brands, and more than 30 languages. It will be used in more than 80 countries by the end of the year (well, I don't know when we will be there?).
Food, clothing, housing, and transportation, Google has taken care of the last three except for clothes. You said, Amazon's Echo will not be nervous...
Android system P is here, the phone can save power!
This year marks the 11th year since Google first put Android on its phones.
At today's conference, Google officially announced the launch of Android P, a new Android system, which will focus on three directions: more intelligent (Intelligence), simpler (Simplicity), more healthy (Digital wellbeing).
And, instead of waiting for a specific day, the beta is out today and you can start downloading! Which mobile phone brands can it run on? Google Pixel, Nokia, One Plus, Vivo, Xiomi, Sony and Oppo are really the only consolation for domestic users...
How to be more intelligent?
The mobile phone can not only predict the next application you may want to use, but also predict what your next operation will be. For example, after get off work, the system may recommend two options for you, which are based on your behavioral habits. , whether to call your wife or go for a run, you can choose the corresponding function.
Auto-brightness is another little feature that learns how to best set the brightness of the screen in different ambient lighting conditions.
It's not about saving your phone's battery! Google hopes to reduce battery usage by 30% and reduce CPU access for these apps. This year, Maslow's bottom line should become: enough power for mobile phones, and the next level is to have Wifi anytime, anywhere. . . .
In order to keep you from being addicted to digital products, Android P also took a lot of thought. For example, the new dashboard will show you each time you use the app and how many times you unlock your phone. Another Google app Youtube has also added a "break reminder". As long as a fixed time arrives, it will remind you that you have spent ** time on YouTube, so take a break!
Remember the Smart Display that Google showed off at CES this year? Today, Google officially announced that it will sell smart displays in July this year, similar to adding a touch screen to the Google Home smart speaker.
Lilian Rincon, director of product management at Google, said during the presentation that this is a product that combines voice and visual functions. With a smart display, not only can you watch live TV through YouTube, you can also give commands to it, wake up a YouTube video, call up an online recipe, call up a map, and you don't even have to click on the screen!
Hey Google, give me a Create 101!
In less than a year since Google announced its AI-first strategy last year, Google has used AI to make so many changes: Not only is the voice assistant Google Home smarter and smarter, it can understand you without repeated calls; Google Voice It is also becoming more and more like a human voice. Google Assistant can even help you order meals and make doctor appointments...
However, are you happy or worried when AI is on the road to understand more and more humans?
As a crazy lover, I still think about it first, should I change to an Android phone... So which one is the best Android phone?
For more highlights, you can see the report of the spy's Google I/O conference last year:
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