Google's virtual keyboard for Android smartphones will be enhanced with an AI-based error correction tool.
Artificial intelligence has been in the news ever since ChatGPT was made available to the general public. Every week, new services powered by generative AI make the news. Examples include the supermarket chain's initiative to offer a recipe-idea service based on OpenAI's GPT 3.5 model, or YouTube's new feature, which lets you create a summary of a video before opening it. Now it's Google's turn to innovate with a promising new feature that should soon be landing on our smartphones.
Gboard will use AI to correct your mistakes
This new feature was spotted by 9to5Google on one of their APK Insight articles. These involve decompiling an application's installation file to unearth upcoming new features for the app concerned by the exploration. According to these recent findings, Google is concocting a major update for its Gboard virtual keyboard. The company is said to be using its own generative artificial intelligence to help you write better.
This Google-style AI is none other than the one that powers the Bard chatbot, a direct competitor to ChatGPT. The keyboard will integrate this language model, called LaMDA, and will be able to proofread texts entered by the user to correct spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. Accessible from the keyboard toolbar, this feature will display correction suggestions, applicable at the touch of a fingertip.
Towards improved correction and new features
In view of the possibilities offered by AI, Google is not going to confine itself to simple proofreading by integrating the LaMDA model into its virtual keyboard. Drawing on the generative characteristics of this technology, the Mountain View company intends to offer to rewrite a message in a tone adapted to the original intention.
Gboard will also be equipped with a stickers and emojis generator through a new tool called Emogen. This will work by creating a suitable emoji from scratch, via a "prompt" entered by the user. This use is reminiscent of AI tools for generating images, such as MidJourney.
If the biggest groups in the IT and Internet sectors are betting so much on AI, it's a safe bet that this race for innovation will be a long one. However, it's worth noting that while these innovations seem to be playing an increasingly important role in our society, more than one in two people say they are not very reassured about artificial intelligence.
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