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The Top 100 (Mostly AI-Powered) Changes Promised by Google

While Google has been throwing a blizzard-of-bucks at AI for a while now, it can be tough for writers to distill how all that green will make their lives easier.

This piece on Google’s blog has all the answers.

It cuts through all the noise and hype and offers a succinct, just-the-facts-ma’am rundown on all the upgrades (mostly AI-driven) Google is promising to roll-out in coming months.

Stop here for details and links on:

*Significant improvements to ChatGPT competitor Gemini

*The upgrade to Imagen 3 — a text-to-art generator great for making supporting images

*Tools for customizing Gemini for specialized writing and other tasks

*Much more

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Top AI Writers for Marketers: Save Your Job, Impress Your Boss, Thank The Robots: While market overviews of top AI writers are popping-up on the Web with increasing regularity, this is a really good one.

The reason: Writer Dan Atkins offers an extremely well-written, fast-paced look at his picks for best AI marketing tools.

And he gets very specific about the kinds of content each tool can generate, such as marketing emails, interview questions, Web site content and the like.

Bottom line: If you’re looking to get quickly up-to-speed on what AI auto-writers can do for you, this is a great overview piece.

*Google’s Beefed-Up Gemini – Now Handling More Data Than Your Brain: Writers looking to stay current on competitors to ChatGPT will want to give Google’s newly upgraded chatbot — Gemini 1.5 Pro — a test drive.

The biggest change to Gemini 1.5 Pro is a greatly expanded ‘context window’ — or the amount of data a user can work with in Gemini’s chat interface at one time.

Observes Sissie Hsiao, a vice president at Google: This means Gemini Advanced can make sense of multiple large documents — up to 1,500-pages total, summarize 100 emails or handle similarly sized, data-intensive tasks.

*Microsoft’s New AI-Powered PCs: The Cure for MacBook Envy?: The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern is jazzed about a new line of PCs from Microsoft that are AI-powered.

Observes Stern: “I tried these new Copilot+ PCs. They’ve got improved performance, battery life and enhanced AI features.

“Finally! Microsoft is promising some real competition to Apple’s M-powered MacBooks.”

One caveat: Despite their prowess, AI-powered PCs — which process AI functions locally on your device rather than in the cloud — will always be somewhat less advanced than AI you can find on the Web.

The reason: No matter how optimized AI is for use on a PC, it cannot — generally speaking — compete with cloud-based AI, which runs on a supercomputer.

At least, that is, for the moment.

*New Text-to-Video From Google: Another Hollywood Panic Attack?: Looking to steal a bit of thunder from Sora — an in-development, text-to-video tool that has Hollywood in a tizzy over potential job loss — Google is prepping release of a Sora competitor.

Dubbed Veo, the in-development video-maker can auto-generate 1080p-resolution video clips from text that run about 60 seconds.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Veo appears to be competitive with today’s leading video generation models — not only Sora, but models from startups like Pika, Runway and Irreverent Labs.”

*Making Sense of Cents, the AI Way: In the spirit of ‘AI Everywhere’ — a trend triggered by the widespread success of ChatGPT — a new AI tool has been released that offers instant financial advice to businesses.

Dubbed ‘Accountant AI,’ the tool integrates your business’ financial data with industry news and insights to offer personalized advice and insights for your next financial move.

Observes Lilac Bar David, CEO, Lili: “Accountant AI will revolutionize the way business owners interact with their financial data by providing them with quick and more affordable answers to all of their accounting and financial questions.

“For business owners who cannot afford an accountant or more expensive accounting tools, Accountant AI is a game-changer.”

*The New AI Customer Service Chatbots: The End of Fear and Loathing?: The day when customer-service chatbots won’t leave frustrated customers screaming, “Bring me the knives for my eyes,” may have arrived.

Dataiku is one a number of firms offering software that enables businesses to create customer service — and other Q&A chatbots — that operate with the full force and versatility of AI.

In a phrase: “The result is many secure, governed and scalable conversational AI chatbots,” according to Sophie Dionnet, a vice president at Dataiku.

Those chatbots can contextualize information and produce relevant and reliable answers to an organization’s unique set of questions, Dionnet adds.

*Oh Goodie: With AI, Now Everyone Can Be A Lawyer: AI pioneer My Pocket Lawyer reports that 20,000+ people are using its legal advice tool — many of them everyday consumers.

Observes Charlie Hernandez, CEO, My Pocket Lawyer: “My Pocket Lawyer’s technological strides are not just about innovation: They represent a leap toward bridging the justice gap for countless individuals and small businesses.”

*Prompt Challenged?: Claude’s Got Your Back: Writers foraging around for ‘just the right’ prompt to wrestle what they want from AI may want to check-out a new prompting tool from Anthropic.

Makers of Claude — a direct competitor to ChatGPT, Gemini and the like — Anthropic developed the tool to take the guesswork out of working with its AI chatbot.

Observes lead writer Asif Razzaq: Anthropic’s new prompting tool “is an exciting development that will help many users and beginners generate production-ready prompts in the Anthropic Console — saving time and ensuring high-quality results.”

*AI Big Picture: The Year Ahead for AI: Investor’s Business Daily takes an insightful look at what to expect from AI in the coming year in this piece — noting that major tech companies have placed huge bets on AI succeeding both long-and-short-term.

Observes writer Eric Savitz: “To me, this feels a little like the early days of the Internet or the early days of cloud computing or the early days of smartphones.

“If you made a conscious decision not to participate in this market as a technology company, you’re making a very contrarian bet that the rest of the world is wrong. I don’t see anybody doing that.”

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.