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Generative AI is all the rage — and Google has found two new ways to bring the technology to the palm of your hand. First, it’s announcing Magic Compose, a new feature in Android’s default Messages app that will let you reply to texts with auto-suggested replies “based on the content of your messages” to make them sound like you, or use Grammarly to make them sound more “concise” and “professional,” or even mimic a famous style.
The beta is coming this summer.
Second, Google will include generative AI wallpaper as part of a Pixel exclusive next month, where “you can respond to suggested prompts to describe your ultimate creative vision” thanks to “Google’s text-to-image diffusion model.” It’s similar to Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, but only for a location on your phone.
Google also says it has a new flavor of "cinematic wallpaper" that "uses machine learning to transform your favorite photos into stunning 3D images" that "come to life when you unlock or tilt your device."
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None of this is a particularly new idea. There are plenty of opportunities to try out generative AI, but some of the best are moderately, if not heavily, subscription-based, and it's nice to have one more in the palm of your hand.
More customization will apparently be a big theme of Android 14when it arrives later this year, by the way. You’ll also be able to “customize your lock screen with new shortcuts and beautifully designed clocks” and apply a monochromatic (black, white, gray) color palette “across the entire phone.” There will also be emoji wallpapers.
All of this is a tiny glimpse into the Android “ecosystem” after Android 13 – because the company tells us it doesn’t plan on making a big deal out of Android 14 today.
These AI-related features are just some of the AI we saw yesterday at I/O.
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source of information:theverge.com
