AI mode in Google research obtains new visual search capacities

Google LLC updates the new “AI mode” function In Google Search, the introduction of multimodal capacities that allow it to “see” the images downloaded by users, so that it can better answer their questions.

AI mode was presented In an overview limited last month for Google One Ai Premium subscribers. It is an experimental feature in Google Search that users of generative artificial intelligence and allow users to ask complex and multi -party questions and monitoring requests to deepen a specific subject.

With today’s update, those who have access to IA mode can now download images and ask questions about what she sees, Google has revealed in a blog Today. In addition, the functionality of the AI ​​mode is deployed to millions of new users who have registered in its Laboratory program To obtain early access to new applications.

Google has said that AI mode image analysis functionality is fueled by multimodal search capacities in Google Lenswhich is a smartphone application that allows users to take photos with their camera and search them in Google Search.

According to Google, AI mode will be able to understand the entire scene in any downloaded image, including the way the different objects inside relate to each other. He will also be able to check the materials of which these objects are made, their shapes and their colors and their arrangement, said Google. He will ask several questions about the image and objects within it, which allows him to provide a more detailed answer than traditional Google research.

For example, Google said that someone could take a photo of their library and enter the question: “If I appreciate them, what are the similar books I would like?” The AI ​​mode will scan the image to identify each book, then it will recommend a lot of other books after doing research on these titles.

In addition, users can ask follow -up questions. Thus, the user can emphasize that he or she “looking for a quick reading, which of these recommendations is the shortest?”

Google Search vice-president of the Robby Stein product stressed that “AI mode is based on years of work in the field of visual research and goes further”.

Since IA mode is always an experimental functionality, it is not clear to what extent the service has become popular. Google launched it last month in response to popular AI -generating research applications such as OpenAi Chatgpt research, which offer similar capacities.

Google said it would continue to refine the user experience and extend the functionality of IA mode before a more general version.

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