Whilst Google reels from AI's impact on its core search function - its share of that market has dipped below 90% for the first time since 2015, as the likes of ChatGPT and Perplexity make their searches even more compelling - it's working flat-out on new, funky AI that needs to keep people coming back.
Via its Gemini 2.0 AI model, this new 'Live' feature can get AI looking over your shoulder at things that you'd quite like an opinion on. Here, it's working out what the colour of a vase should be - there's a nice, decisive move for the olive green hue, based on what is going to be positioned around it.
It's neat tech. As with all announcements from Google recently, it's a demo that isn't available yet - so its actual implementation might be very much worse than this (remember its image model that showed black Nazis or its terrible Bard suite of models that never came close to ChatGPT?) and also delayed by years.
However, there is no doubt that this is the direction that AI is headed. If you're in need of a second opinion and no one's around - or perhaps you're just tired of making decisions and want something else to do everything for you - this could be just the thing.
One of the hardest things in this new AI world is going to be not becoming lazy. In some ways, that very drive will be the difference between the humans that win and those that do not once the machines can help all of us do pretty much anything.
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