When all daily tasks can be assisted by artificial intelligence. This is the objective of a tool that Google is currently developing and testing and that offers ultra-personalized tips and ideas useful for everyday life, according to the New York Times.
To set up this project, Google merged, last April, Deepmind, its research laboratory, and Brain, a team dedicated to artificial intelligence formed by the company. Teams are currently testing new tools that could turn generative AI into a true personal life coach, like a tutor of sorts.
The idea of this tool is to be able to give users suggestions or recommendations based on a situation: how to progress as a runner, how to make a monthly family budget or plan meals. The novelty consists above all in making highly personalized suggestions. The teams worked so that the AI could respond to 21 different types of personal and professional tasks.
Scale AI, a contractor, has brought together more than 100 experts in different fields who evaluate the responses of the tool. In particular, they tested the assistant’s ability to answer very personal questions.
ethical issues
For example, the experts sent very specific questions to the AI like this: “I have a very close friend who is getting married this winter. She was my roommate in college and she was a bridesmaid at my wedding… I have many I want to go to his wedding to celebrate, but I’m unemployed and can’t afford the flight and hotel to get there, how do I tell him I can’t go?
The tool is still in development and Google may decide not to continue the experiment if the results are not satisfactory. The ethical question of AI is at the forefront, especially when it comes to health. Last March, when Google launched Bard, the company said the chatbot was not authorized to provide medical, financial or legal advice.
But above all, this project reveals the challenges of the AI race that Google is engaged in alongside Microsoft and other tech giants. With the rapid growth of these tools, ethical questions are on the rise. Like this Belgian man who committed suicide after talking to an AI about global warming.
Source: BFM TV
