New Delhi: Google is now transforming its most popular and most used AI Model, Gemini, to be more advanced for professional uses. Recently, they have announced that Google Maps is heading in a new direction with the AI sitting in the passenger’s seat. Now, it is going to be fueled by Google’s Gemini AI technology, and the world’s most popular navigation application will become a more conversational companion as part of the redesign, which was announced recently. The hands-free experience is meant to turn Google Maps into something more like an insightful passenger able to direct a driver to a destination while also providing nearby recommendations on places to eat, shop or sightsee, when users ask for the advice.
Google has also promised that there will be no fumbling required; now, users can ask whatever they want. These AI features enable Google Maps to be more precise by calling out landmarks to denote the place to make a turn instead of relying on distance notifications. AI chatbots, like Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have sometimes lapsed into periods of making things up, known as hallucinations in tech speak, but Google is promising that built-in safeguards will prevent Maps from accidentally sending drivers down the wrong road.
All of the information that the Gemini is drawing upon will be culled from the roughly 250 million places stored in Google Maps’ database of the reviews accumulated during the past 20 years. Google Maps’ latest AI capabilities will be rolling out to both Apple’s iPhone and Android mobile devices. That will give Google’s Gemini a massive audience to impress or disappoint with its AI prowess, given that the navigation application is used by more than 2 billion people around the world. Google is now hoping the AI features will turn into a showcase that helps give Gemini a competitive edge against ChatGPT. The changes have included an overhaul of Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has emphasised listing of relevant web links in its results and increasingly highlighted AI overviews and conversational responses provided through AI mode.
