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MEET GEMINI Google’s new AI assistant, Gemini, is here to help. Let’s check out what it does and how it can supercharge your creativity and productivity.

What is Gemini? Formerly known as Bard, Gemini is Google’s powerful AI assistant, capable of composing text documents and emails in different tones, generating ideas and images, and responding to user input via a simple prompt. It can also learn, solve problems, and provide context for more helpful responses. Gemini is a multimodal AI model, which means it can complete complex tasks and understand and combine info including text, code, audio, images, and video. How does it work? Without getting too technical, Gemini uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to recognise, generate, summarise and translate text, and can also

generate and analyse code, process audio, video, and more. Gemini is a Large Language Model (LLM) AI, which uses machine learning that’s been trained using trillions of words, enabling it to learn common language patterns and comprehension to generate human language text. It can assist with composing an attention-grabbing social media post, manage schedules and events, or help you prepare for a job interview. Simply type or ask what you want, or perform a visual search by tapping the camera to upload a picture. User prompts and questions help to improve its responses, and if it doesn’t know something, it will search for the correct response. Ask it why the sky

Gemini Live Announced at the recent Made by Google event, Gemini Live will be

integrated across the new Pixel 9 series of smartphones. A convenient, hands-free alternative to entering text or performing a Google search, Gemini Live enables free-flowing conversation with the chatbot directly

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scattering. And were we to ask it to act as a journalist and write a feature on itself, it would, but that would be cheating! How do you use it? All you need to get started is a Google account and the

from your phone, with the option to choose from ten different voices. You can even interrupt it mid sentence or change the subject, and the AI will keep up.

*Gemini mobile app is available for selected devices, languages and countries. Internet connection required. Check responses for accuracy.

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