Google announced that new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for its Google Meet video telephony services they will be able to “attend” instead of the user to a meeting and take notes.
“With the ‘attend for me’ feature, Duet AI will be able to participate in the meeting for you, make your message heard, and of course, prepare a summary for you,” the company highlighted in a statement.
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Among the new features of Google Meet, which were announced as part of the event Google Cloud Next, there are: subtitles with automatic translation in 18 languages, take notes, make summaries and create meeting clips.
In addition, users will be able to speak privately with a Google chatbot to go over details of the conference in progress. According to Dave Citron, Google’s senior product manager for Meet, there have been three “eras of innovation” for video conferencing.
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The first was the pandemic, when many people first used these services; the second was the return to a hybrid work environment and the third is now, with the advent of AI.
“Now is the tipping point that we reached in the last eight months with LLM language models and diffusion models,” Citron pointed out.
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Google announced that it will implement its Duet AI assistant in all its Workspace applications, including Gmail, Drive, Slides and Docs for a monthly price of 30 dollars (about 27.7 euros) per user, at least for large organizations. Aparna Pappu, director of Workspace, told CNBC that Google hasn’t set pricing for smaller businesses.
That’s the same price Microsoft charges for its AI system called Copilot, with similar features that work in most Office applications.