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New tools for remote work

If you’ve been lucky enough to have a job that allows you to work from home for the past 14 months, you’re probably accustomed to living a working life in the cloud. Google’s new remote work tools aim to make that a little easier. Smart Canvas is a project management tool that allows multiple users to work together on different types of documents. They can track progress with items on the checklist labeled with specific dates and people, and ideas for carrying out ideas live in the same place.

Google Meet, a video chat platform, will soon be integrated directly into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can click the Meet button in the top corner and the video will appear in a column along with the collaborators document to discuss what has been edited. A new Meet Assistant mode allows members of a group to display tabs that are placed in the same way, adding noise-canceling enhancements, and visual zoom and auto-lighting to make all participants ’videos consistent with their vision. For anyone who needs subtitles, they can be activated using a live transcript or translated into one of the languages ​​supported by Google.

Improving Natural Language Skills

Google showed some new AI-based conversation skills that will eventually appear in products that use Google Assistant. First, a new conversation model called LaMDA has been developed that can contain an interview on any topic that you are curious about, both written and oral. The AI ​​will search for information on the topic while you are speaking, and then naturally enhance the conversation by weaving facts and contextual information into its responses. What we saw on Tuesday was just a controlled demo, but the LaMDA model seems to have been even more humane in conversations with the computer.

There is a natural language processing model for Google Search Tools. Called Google by the name Multitask Unified Model or MUM, Google says the feature is due to the longer and more varied questions submitted by users. In theory, you could ask them to compare different holiday locations or tell you what kind of equipment you should bring on a walk. It can drag and drop websites from other languages ​​to you, so that the most important information is not locked behind the language barrier.

These improvements are part of Google’s greatest effort to understand the meaning and context of questions in human form. Still, Google says the features are in the experimental phase, so the wizard will need to start making decisions about the wizard pod bay doors.

More detailed maps

Google is adapting parts of its Maps application to provide more real-time information to users. When you’re asking for directions, Google will present the option for “eco-friendly routes” that take distance, road, or traffic conditions to get a more efficient way to get where you’re going. A “safer routing” feature on Maps can look at road and traffic patterns to avoid what it calls “hard braking moments,” when traffic slows down unexpectedly.

If you walk around, Google’s AR mode, there are also Live View enhancements that help contextualize where you’re located, by analyzing street signs, and provide information like “occupancy” levels for entire neighborhoods instead of specific restaurants and shops. Live View now works indoors, so you can see that contextual information inside a train station or mall. The main map tool will also show you what time and location you want. Open Maps in the morning and you’ll see pins for breakfast options. Open Maps in a city you’ve never visited and you’ll see popular tourist spots and attractions.

Don’t forget about shopping

In an effort to make shopping more accessible on the Internet, Google has adapted some shopping tools. Now, users can use Google Lens to search for images in screenshots taken on their phone and link third-party memberships directly to their Google Account. Also, you could add an idly few days 5 pound rubber bear bag go shopping and then forget about it. Now, every time you open a new tab in Chrome, Google shows you all the purchases that are waiting for you in the shopping carts on the web.

Google also announced the Shopify integration feature, which will allow vendors using Shopify to show their products on searches, maps, images, Google Lens, and YouTube.

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