Google officially announced its Duet AI during its I/O event back in May, its generative AI tools its Workspace tools like Gmail, Docs, and Meet, among others. During the Google Cloud SEA AI Media Summit, the company announced more features that will be coming to Duet in the next six months. And probably the most impressive among them all is evolving the AI from being prompt-based to being context-aware.
Despite the name of this improvement, you’ll still have to prompt Duet AI to work its magic. But the key difference here is that, within your Google Workspace environment, the AI scours through, looking for relevant information, that can then be included into your work. An example the internet search giant provided was getting a request via email for a business to prepare a quarterly report, which sees Duet AI pulling related information from spreadsheets and related documents to be included.
The company claims that everything in this use case is restricted to your specific Google Workspace environment. This means that Duet AI will only be sourcing its info from within, without making things up as it goes.
Other features that the company says are coming to the Duet AI within the Google Workspace looks to mainly be focused on Meet. The list includes automatically translated captions and real-time teleprompting, which are self explanatory. Within this group of features, the one that sounds the most interesting is what the company calls “take notes for me”. While it too sounds quite self explanatory, what’s really impressive here is the feature’s ability to not only jot down meeting minutes automatically, but also timestamp certain highlights within the video call.
Finally, there’s a quirky one called “attend for me” for when you can’t make it to a specific Google Meet video call. You can instead get an avatar to attend for you, and get it to ask a specific question during the meeting, and then relaying the answer back to you via the aforementioned notes.
While the features related to Google Meet is understandably locked behind the enterprise tier of Google Workspace, unfortunately the other parts, including the context-aware Duet AI, is also not accessible to free users. The only form of the AI that will be coming to the general user base will be one that helps you write an email, which may allow you to switch things up in terms of tone.
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