Generative AI is all the trend — and Google has discovered two new methods to place the tech within the palm of your hand.
First, it’s asserting Magic Compose, a brand new characteristic in Android’s default Messages app that’ll allow you to reply to texts with auto-suggested responses “based mostly on the content material of your messages” in order that they sound such as you, or pull a Grammarly and make them sound extra “concise” and “skilled” and even imitate a well-known model.
Me? I can’t wait to place it to work on these pig butchering scammers who maintain pretending they’ve acquired the “improper quantity.” The beta’s coming this summer season.
Second, as a part of a Pixel-exclusive subsequent month, Google’s including generative AI wallpaper the place “you possibly can reply advised prompts to explain your final artistic imaginative and prescient,” because of “Google’s text-to-image diffusion mannequin.” Like Midjourney or Steady Diffusion, however only for a single spot in your telephone? Right here’s hoping it’s good and we will simply yank the pictures for different makes use of, too.
Google additionally says it’s acquired a brand new taste of “cinematic wallpaper” that “makes use of on-device machine studying networks to remodel your favourite images into gorgeous 3D photos” that “come to life whenever you unlock or tilt your machine.” (I’m quoting closely all through as a result of there’s so little extra textual content within the official weblog put up that I don’t see a lot of some extent in summarizing it for you.)
None of those are notably new concepts, however because the well-known William Gibson quote goes: “The long run is already right here — it’s simply not very evenly distributed.” There are a variety of alternatives to attempt generative AI, however a few of the greatest are reasonably, if not closely, paywalled, and it’s good to have one other within the palm of your hand.
Extra customization will apparently be an enormous theme of Android 14 when it arrives later this yr, by the best way — you’ll additionally be capable of “customise your lock display with new shortcuts and fantastically crafted clocks” and apply a monochrome (black, white, gray) colour palette “throughout your whole telephone expertise.” There can be emoji wallpaper too.
It’s all a tiny glimpse of the Android ecosystem post-Android 13 — as a result of the corporate tells us it’s not planning to make an enormous deal of Android 14 immediately.