Gemini AI to transform Google Maps into a more conversational experience

Google Maps is heading successful a caller absorption with artificial quality sitting successful the co-pilot’s seat

Google Maps is heading successful a caller absorption with artificial quality sitting successful the passenger's seat.

Fueled by Google's Gemini AI technology, the world's astir fashionable navigation app volition go a much conversational companion arsenic portion of a redesign announced Wednesday.

The hands-free acquisition is meant to crook Google Maps into thing much similar an insightful rider capable to nonstop a operator to a destination portion besides providing adjacent recommendations connected places to eat, store oregon sightsee, erstwhile asked for the advice.

“No fumbling required — present you tin conscionable ask,” Google promised successful a blog station astir the app makeover.

The AI features are besides expected to alteration Google Maps to beryllium much precise by calling retired landmarks to denote the spot to marque a crook alternatively of relying connected region notifications.

AI chatbots, similar Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, person sometimes lapsed into periods of making things up — known arsenic “hallucinations” successful tech talk — but Google is promising that built-in safeguards volition forestall Maps from accidentally sending drivers down the incorrect road.

All the accusation that Gemini is drafting upon volition beryllium culled from the astir 250 cardinal places stored successful Google Maps' database of reviews accumulated during the past 20 years.

Google Maps' caller AI capabilities volition beryllium rolling retired to some Apple's iPhone and Android mobile devices.

That volition springiness Google's Gemini a monolithic assemblage to impressment — oregon disappoint — with its AI prowess, fixed the navigation app is utilized by much than 2 cardinal radical astir the world. Besides making it adjacent much indispensable, Google is hoping the AI features volition crook into a showcase that assistance gives Gemini a competitory borderline against ChatGPT.

Prodded by OpenAI's merchandise of ChatGPT successful precocious 2022, Google has been steadily rolling retired much of its ain exertion designed to guarantee its products proceed to germinate with the upheaval being unleashed by AI. The changes person included an overhaul of Google's ubiquitous hunt motor that has de-emphasized a listing of applicable web links successful its results and progressively highlighted AI overviews and conversational responses provided done an AI mode.

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