Your Photos Aren’t Real

At a splashy media lawsuit this week astatine its office successful Mountain View, California, Google announced four caller Pixel phones. But the astir important worldly unveiled astatine the Made By Google lawsuit wasn’t the hardware itself, but alternatively each of the generative AI tools packed into the devices.

Most notable are immoderate AI-powered camera features that let Pixel owners to easy adhd their ain representation to a radical changeable aft they’ve taken the photo, oregon to change a photograph wholly by changing nighttime to time and adding objects that were ne'er truly there. It’s an exploration of our limits—how convincingly exertion tin bring alternate realities to life, and however overmuch of the computer-generated scenery we tin tolerate.

This week connected Gadget Lab, WIRED elder reviews exertion Julian Chokkattu joins the amusement to speech astir Google’s fancy caller photograph tricks. We besides speech astir Gemini Live, the latest iteration of the company’s AI-powered dependable chatbot. Finally, we inquire the un-askable: Is Google Assistant yet dead, oregon conscionable banished to Google’s attic?

Show Notes

Read much astir all the caller updates from the Made By Google event, including Google’s Pixel camera updates. Learn however the institution is utilizing AI to reshape reality. There are immoderate perchance life-saving caller features connected the Pixel Watch 3. Also work Reece Rogers’ WIRED communicative astir ChatGPT’s precocious dependable mode and Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker communicative astir tweens and Sephora.

Recommendations

Julian recommends folding flip phones. Lauren recommends Colorscience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 sunscreen lotion. Mike recommends the audiobook mentation of All Fours by Miranda July. (You tin perceive to it successful Spotify Premium.)

Julian Chokkattu tin beryllium recovered connected societal media @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline astatine @GadgetLab. The amusement is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our taxable euphony is by Solar Keys.

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