Google has renamed its Bard chatbot to Gemini and released a dedicated Gemini app for Android.
The company plans to fold all of its Duet AI features into the Gemini brand, with extensions being how Google adds capabilities to the tool. English support in other countries such as Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific and Canada is officially rolling out from Monday onwards along with Japanese and Korean.
Google has announced that it is renaming its Bard chatbot to Gemini and releasing a dedicated Gemini app for Android. The company also plans to fold all of its Duet AI features into the Gemini brand, with extensions being how Google adds capabilities to the tool. While not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android, English support in other countries such as Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific and Canada is officially rolling out from Monday onwards along with Japanese and Korean. The app will offer conversational overlay input submit functionality for speech-to-text that requires you press the send icon to submit.
Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android.
Extensions will be how Google adds those capabilities.
English support in other countries such as Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific and Canada is officially rolling out from Monday onwards along with Japanese and Korean. Availability of the Gemini app in the UK, Switzerland European Economic Area countries and associated territories is coming soon.
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The article is deceptive in several ways. Firstly, the author claims that Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android based on user sentiment. However, there are no sources cited for this claim and it's unclear where this information came from. Secondly, the author lists a number of features and services that are not supported in Gemini but fails to mention that these issues have already been fixed by Google. Thirdly, the article uses sensationalist language such as
The user sentiment that has emerged in recent days is that Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android.
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The article contains several examples of informal fallacies. The author uses an appeal to authority by citing Jack Krawczyk as a source for the things that need fixing in Gemini. Additionally, the author uses inflammatory rhetoric when they describe some of the issues with Gemini as 'laughable'. There are also several examples of dichotomous depictions throughout the article, such as when it describes Google Assistant and Gemini as being unable to replace each other.
The author uses an appeal to authority by citing Jack Krawczyk as a source for the things that need fixing in Gemini.
Additionally, the author uses inflammatory rhetoric when they describe some of the issues with Gemini as 'laughable'.
There are also several examples of dichotomous depictions throughout the article, such as when it describes Google Assistant and Gemini as being unable to replace each other.
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The article is biased towards Google Assistant and its limitations in Gemini. The author uses language that demeans the capabilities of Gemini by calling it not ready to replace Google Assistant on Android. They also use examples such as routines not being supported in Gemini which are specific to a feature of Google Assistant, making it seem like there is no functionality available for users who do not have access to this feature.
Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android.
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Media service providers: Podcasts, news and radio stations, and third-party music providers aren't currently supported in Gemini.
Routines: Starting a Routine in Gemini isn't supported.
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Abner Li has a conflict of interest with Google Assistant and Android as he is an author for the website 9to5google.com which is owned by Vox Media, LLC.
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The author has a conflict of interest on the topics of Gemini and Google Assistant as they are products created by Google. The article mentions that the author is an Android developer who works with these products.
Gemini is named after an AI project unveiled late last year by Google and aims to become the main way users apply the technology to help them think, plan and create.
The Gemini app initially will be released in English before expanding to other regions with versions in Japanese and Korean.
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The article is deceptive in several ways. Firstly, it states that Google has cast aside the Bard chatbot to focus on Gemini. However, this statement is false as Google still maintains its voice assistant and expects it to remain a main way users apply technology for thinking, planning and creating. Secondly, the article claims that Gemini will be able to tutor students and provide computer programming tips to engineers which are not mentioned in the product description provided by Google. Thirdly, the article quotes Sundar Pichai stating that Ultra 1.0 is capable of outperforming human experts on massive multitask language understanding when there is no evidence supporting this claim.
Google has cast aside the Bard chatbot to focus on Gemini
Gemini will be able to tutor students and provide computer programming tips to engineers
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The article contains several examples of informal fallacies. The author uses an appeal to authority by stating that Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella both claim their AI is the best. This statement implies that these individuals are experts in the field, but it does not provide any evidence or reasoning for why they believe this. Additionally, there are several examples of inflammatory rhetoric throughout the article, such as when it states that Google's Bard chatbot was introduced a year ago to catch up with ChatGPT and that Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI unleashed the chatbot in late 2022. These statements create an emotional response rather than providing evidence or reasoning for why this is important.
The author uses an appeal to authority by stating that Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella both claim their AI is the best.
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The author demonstrates bias by selectively quoting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's assertion that their ChatGPT-4 chatbot is the 'best model, today even', while ignoring Google CEO Sundar Pichai's claim that Gemini Advanced outperforms human experts on a combination of 57 subjects. The author also implies that Google and Microsoft are in direct competition by stating 'The battle already has contributed to a $2 trillion increase in the combined market value of Microsoft and Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., since the end of 2022.'
In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai predicted the technology underlying Gemini Advanced will be able to outthink even the smartest people when tackling many complex topics.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a point Wednesday of touting the capabilities of the ChatGPT-4 chatbot – a product released nearly a year ago after being trained by OpenAI on large-language models, or LLMs. “We have the best model, today even,” Nadella asserted during an event in Mumbai, India.
The battle already has contributed to a $2 trillion increase in the combined market value of Microsoft and Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., since the end of 2022.
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Google has a conflict of interest with its AI app Bard as it is being rebranded as Gemini. The article also mentions Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella's involvement in the development of their own chatbots, which could lead to bias or favoritism.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI
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Google has a conflict of interest with its AI app Bard chatbot as it is being rebranded as Gemini while Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella each insist theirs is best. This could compromise the objectivity and impartiality of Google's reporting on this topic.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a financial stake in OpenAI, which competes with Bard chatbot.
Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android.
Extensions will be how Google adds those capabilities.
The existing Google Workspace extension just supports Gmail, Drive and Docs.
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The article contains an appeal to authority fallacy. The author states that Google has launched a new paid chatbot called Gemini in a race with OpenAI without providing any evidence or context for this claim.
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The article is biased towards Google's new paid chatbot Gemini. The author does not provide any information about the potential benefits of using OpenAI's chatbot or how it compares to Gemini.
Gemini is not yet ready to replace Google Assistant on Android.
Extensions will be how Google adds those capabilities.
The existing Google Workspace extension just supports Gmail, Drive and Docs.
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The article is deceptive in several ways. Firstly, the title of the article suggests that it will provide instructions on how to replace Google Assistant with Gemini AI completely. However, this is not entirely accurate as some features are still exclusive to Google Assistant and cannot be accessed through Gemini.
The title of the article suggests that it will provide instructions on how to replace Google Assistant with Gemini AI completely.
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The article contains several fallacies. The author uses an appeal to authority by stating that Gemini is a new AI chatbot now unveiled in a dedicated Android app and promises a potential revolution in how we interact with our smartphones.
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The article is biased towards the new Gemini AI chatbot and presents it as a potential revolution in how we interact with our smartphones. The author uses language that depicts Google Assistant as inferior to Gemini, such as saying 'it's all Gemini, all the time'. Additionally, there are examples of bias throughout the article where certain features of Google Assistant are not mentioned or highlighted while those same features exist in Gemini.
The chatbot is smart enough to evoke Assistant for certain commands like setting an alarm,
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The article discusses the topic of replacing Google Assistant with Gemini AI. The author is Tech Desk which has a financial stake in Android app development and distribution through apkmirror.com.
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The author has a conflict of interest on the topic of Google Assistant as they are reporting on how to replace it with Gemini AI. The article also mentions an Android app and Play Store which could be seen as promoting or endorsing these products.
Gemini Ultra 1.0 is the largest and most capable version of Google's large language model.
The company announced that it will be folding all its Duet AI features in Google Workspace into the Gemini brand.
Extensions will be how Google adds capabilities to Gemini.
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Gemini Ultra 1.0 is being released to the public
The company announced that it will be folding all its Duet AI features in Google Workspace into the Gemini brand
Extensions will be how Google adds those capabilities.
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The article contains several logical fallacies. The author uses an appeal to authority by stating that Sissie Hsiao believes Gemini is the future of AI assistants without providing any evidence or reasoning for this belief. Additionally, the author makes a false dilemma by suggesting that Google Assistant will be completely replaced by Gemini when it's clear that both will continue to exist and serve different purposes. The article also contains inflammatory rhetoric with phrases such as
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The article is biased towards the new AI assistant called Gemini. The author uses language that depicts Gemini as a superior and more helpful tool than Google Assistant. They also use examples such as the ability to set Gemini as your default assistant on Android devices which reinforces this bias.
If you download the new app on Android, it can set Gemini as your default assistant, meaning it replaces Google Assistant as the thing that responds when you say, “Hey Google” or long-press your home button. So far, it doesn't seem Google is getting rid of Assistant entirely.
The company announced on Thursday that it is renaming its Bard chatbot to Gemini, releasing a dedicated Gemini app for Android, and even folding all its Duet AI features in Google Workspace into the Gemini brand. It also announced that Gemini Ultra 1.0 — the largest and most capable version of Google’s large language model — is being released to the public.
The Ultra model can contain more context and have longer conversations
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David Pierce has a financial tie to Google as he is an employee of The Verge which is owned by Vox Media. He also has personal relationships with people at Google and professional affiliations through his work at The Verge.
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David Pierce has a conflict of interest on the topic of Google's AI assistant Bard as he is an employee at The Verge which is owned by Vox Media. He also has a financial stake in Gemini as it was recently acquired by his employer.
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