Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.
While it showed off a brief demo of “Bard,” the ChatGPT-rivaling AI chatbot-style search powered by its LaMDA technology, most of the features focused on features we’ve already seen, like “visual search” implementations that expand Google Lens, a more immersive version of Google Maps, and a Google Translate that is better at understanding context.
Of course, you can kinda, sorta mess around with Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered Bing already and access the already available ChatGPT itself, which has been enough to raise a “code red” about AI features within Mountain View.
Some of the features are things you can take advantage of soon; disappointingly, many are a ways out.
Let’s start first with some that are available in the near term.
Other new features were also announced, but so far, these don’t have specific release windows attached — these are shipping in the coming weeks / months.