Google is experimenting with a new AI-powered conversational mode in Search

Google shows off advances in conversational AI, search and TPU chips

Dialogflow’s fulfillment feature is available as a low-code option for creating dynamic responses based on backend business data. However, the intentional creation and matching can still be configured completely through an easy-to-use web-based console, Akkad said. Custom Intents is a Google product that aims to allow marketers to target people currently researching specific topics, products, and solutions on the web, using display or YouTube video ad campaigns. For most casual users, the free tier offers plenty, but power users, professionals, and developers who need unfettered access to the Google Gemini API will likely find the paid features worth the investment. There are other features on Android too, beyond access to Gemini itself.

One of the more immediate areas where conversational AI should prove to be helpful will be Google Search. The company announced a new Multitask Unified Model that is said to be a thousand times more powerful than its older Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers or BERT model. Live Caption lets you automatically add subtitles to videos or audio playing on your device, while Smart Reply suggests responses in messaging apps. Many of these features work offline and don’t require any setup — they’re just there when you need them. Normal conversations between humans jump between topics and call back to earlier ideas constantly, a practice that confuses language models to no end. But LaMDA can at least hold its own and not crash out with a “Sorry, I don’t understand” or a non-sequitur answer.

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By keeping it all fresh, posting weekly if not daily, I can give AI a strong foundation for responses to be generated. But it matters particularly to public relations professionals, who have long been advising clients on Google SEO (search engine optimization) for the sake of increasing visibility through searchability. For years, PR experts have been focused on improving their clients’ online persona through Google Search—from generating positive news stories to updating company websites and working within Wikipedia. An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release. Google has been working on significant UI updates to the Translate app to better accommodate its upcoming AI-driven features like Insights, Regional variants, Ask a Question, and Practice.

• As far as AI systems have come in their ability to recognize what you’re saying and respond, they’re still very easily confused unless you speak carefully and literally.
• Brin, at least, has recently become so involved that he filed his first code review request in years, as first reported last week by Forbes.
• As many of its rivals expected, the $1.3 trillion “elephant in the room” has woken up.

But to take back its AI mantle, Google may have to change the very nature of what it means to ‘google’ something. Beta users of Bot-in-Box have included Walmart, Tango Technology, Levi’s, and Albertsons. They have utilized AI-powered Business Messages since its launch on all platforms in February, Google said, reporting that the automation of customer conversations has helped employees save time.

Google is experimenting with a new AI-powered conversational mode in Search

As a next step, Pichai said, LaMDA’s creators are now working on how to add more insightful, unexpected and witty responses to its repertoire of conversational skills. If you have a Google Developer account, you can create a free Google Gemini API key using Google AI Studio (again, if you have access). The Gemini API free tier gives you limited access to the Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and other models. We should note that when you use the free tier, Google says your inputs and outputs can be “used to improve our products.” Android devices come packed with AI features that work behind the scenes, many of which you might not even realize are powered by artificial intelligence. Circle to Search is one of the most useful — just long-press your home button and circle anything on your screen to instantly search for it with Google.

The company uses its TPUs to power its own services, including Google Search, Google Assistant, Google Translate, Gmail and many others. Analyst Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. told SiliconANGLE that Google’s leadership in algorithms on silicon is what enables it to create AI that is far ahead of anything its competitors can come up with. While in the process of serving a customer, a Bot-in-a-Box also can display an existing customer FAQ document, whether it’s from a web page or an internal document, to keep the service simple and easy to follow. Join leaders from Block, GSK, and SAP for an exclusive look at how autonomous agents are reshaping enterprise workflows – from real-time decision-making to end-to-end automation.

• To understand the “how,” it’s important to know how AI-generated responses are, well, generated.
• Dialogflow’s web-based console can also be used to extend the conversational agent to handle more complex questions and user journeys.
• The first-party integration helps a non-expert connect a Dialogflow automated conversational agent to Business Messages through a series of UI forms.
• It’s not hard to see where this feature could lead because we’ve seen the same thing play out in general web search.
• This also helps offset any negativity swirling out there, if you’re a controversial figure.
• Then, on the other hand, you have more variable content like a news story written by a journalist.

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The free version gives you access to all the core features, including the ability to share your camera or screen during conversations. You can point your phone at something and talk through what you’re seeing, whether you need help fixing something, want outfit advice, or need step-by-step guidance. Gemini Live turns your phone into a conversational AI companion that you can actually talk to, and it’s also free with the Gemini app on iOS and Android.

Helping customers in ‘moment of need’

But that’s not the only part of the app getting a UI refresh, as we’ve now spotted more changes slated for Google Translate, this time targeting the Conversation mode. For the biggest computing tasks, Google will offer access to TPUv4 clusters that contain a total of 4,096 chips interconnected with 10 times as much bandwidth as other networking technologies. This means the TPUv4 clusters will be able to deliver over an exaflop of compute power, which is comparable to having 10 million average laptops all running at peak performance.

And, one day, that could be part of your “summary” as a searchable person. The more content you have online, the more findable it becomes for AI. On the one hand, you have controllable information like a company bio.

You can download these audio summaries and listen while commuting or working out. You can’t predict that with 100% certainty, but you can make it more likely for AI to cast you in a favorable light by pursuing positive news coverage. This also helps offset any negativity swirling out there, if you’re a controversial figure. Google has also promised (threatened?) that it’s working on more AI features to “help you get the most out of YouTube.” Prepare yourself.