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A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business

A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business

As the technology advances, industry experts believe, Google must decide whether it will overhaul its search engine and make a full-fledged chat bot the face of its flagship service. Google has been reluctant to share its technology broadly because, like ChatGPT and similar systems, it can generate false, toxic and biased information. LaMDA is available to only a limited number of people through an experimental app, AI Test Kitchen. Google sees this as a struggle to deploy its advanced A.I…. Source link

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Google fights sanctions bid over ‘chat’ evidence in app story antitrust case

Google fights sanctions bid over ‘chat’ evidence in app story antitrust case

Summary Companies Law firms Related documents Epic Games, others accuse Google of deleting evidence Google’s lawyers call bid “meritless” (Reuters) – Google parent Alphabet Inc on Thursday denied claims in an antitrust case in California federal court that the company had deleted employees’ electronic “chats” to deprive plaintiffs of evidence in their case alleging anticompetitive conduct within the Google Play Store. Lawyers for Google at law firms Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and at Munger, Tolles &… Source link

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Google’s Next-Gen Video Chat Tech Is Ready for the Real World

Google’s Next-Gen Video Chat Tech Is Ready for the Real World

Good news for anyone who’s sick of Zoom calls but also hates talking to people in real life: Google’s Project Starline is becoming more widely available. Google introduced Starline in 2021 with the goal of making video calls less weird and awkward. It’s essentially a very complicated video conferencing booth that uses cameras, depth sensors, and three-dimensional imagery to approximate face-to-face conversations between two remote participants. A suite of cameras even track both… Source link

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Google holographic video chat booth, Project Starline, finds its way into the real world  • TechCrunch

Google holographic video chat booth, Project Starline, finds its way into the real world  • TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We just keep getting more excited about Disrupt, but it turns out there’s other stuff going on in the world. A lot of other stuff, in fact; it’s one of those days where keeping this newsletter to a manageable length was extra tricky. Here’s what we came up with. Enjoy! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 You, only holographic: Never mind… Source link

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Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

Enlarge / Someday, Google’s messaging lineup will look like this (assuming Google can stop launching competing products). Ron Amadeo Google is officially kicking off the merger of its two video chat apps, Google Meet and Google Duo. Google announced the merger in June, with the plan to keep the Google Meet brand name while merging the best of both code bases into the Google Duo app. According to Google’s PR email (no… Source link

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Google sets a timeline to shut down Hangouts and switch over to Chat

Google sets a timeline to shut down Hangouts and switch over to Chat

After sunsetting Google Hangouts for Workspace users in February, Google’s now beginning the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat. In an announcement posted to its blog, Google says people who still use the Hangouts mobile app will see a prompt to move to Chat. As for users who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web, Google says it won’t start prompting users to make the switch to Chat until July. Hangouts will remain usable on its desktop site until November, and… Source link

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Google starts prompting remaining Hangouts users to move to Chat – TechCrunch

Google starts prompting remaining Hangouts users to move to Chat – TechCrunch

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt will help remaining users move to Chat as Google works toward officially shutting down Hangouts in November. People who use the Hangouts Chrome extension will be asked to move to Chat on the web or install the Chat web app, the company says. In July, people who use… Source link

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