Subj : Google Gemini's new Calendar capabilities take it one step closer
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Feb 29 2024 00:15:05

Google Gemini's new Calendar capabilities take it one step closer to being 
your ultimate personal assistant

Date:
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:02 +0000

Description:
Gemini, Googles family of AI generative models is getting Google Calendar 
capabilities, enhancing it as a digital assistant.

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Googles new family of artificial intelligence (AI) generative models, Gemini 
, will soon be able to access events scheduled in Google Calendar on Android 
phones. 

 According to 9to5Google , Calendar events were on Gemini Experiences Senior 
Director of Product Management at Google Jack Krawczyks things to fix ASAP 
list for what Google would be working to add to Gemini to make it a 
better-equipped digital assistant. 

Users who have the Gemini app on an Android device can now expect Gemini to 
respond to voice or text prompts like Show me my calendar and Do I have any 
upcoming calendar events? When 9to5Google tried this the week before, Gemini 
responded that it couldnt fulfill those types of requests and queries - which 
was particularly noticeable as those kinds of requests are pretty commonplace 
with rival (non-AI) digital assistants such as Siri or Google Assistant . 
However, when those same prompts were attempted this week, Gemini opened the 
Google Calendar app and fulfilled the requests. It seems that if users would 
like to enter a new event using Gemini , you need to tell it something like 
Add an event to my calendar, to which it should then prompt the user to fill 
out the details manually by using voice commands. (Image credit: 
Shutterstock) Going all in on Gemini 

Google is clearly making progress to set up Gemini as its proprietary 
all-in-one AI offering (including as a digital assistant, replacing Google 
Assistant in the future). Its got quite a few steps before it manages that, 
with users asking for features like the ability to play music or edit their 
shopping lists via Gemini . Another significant hurdle for Gemini to clear if 
it wants to become popular is that its only available in the United States 
for now. 

The race to become the best AI assistant has gotten a little bit more intense 
recently between Microsoft with Copilot , Google with Gemini , and Amazon 
with Alexa. Google did recently make some pretty big strides in its ability 
to compress the larger Gemini models so it could run on mobile devices. The 
capabilities of these more complex models sound like they can give Gemini s 
capabilities a major boost. Google Assistant is pretty widely recognized and 
this is another feather in Googles cap. I feel hesitant about placing a bet 
on any single one of these digital AI assistants, but if Google continues at 
this pace with Gemini , I think its chances are pretty good. You might also 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-geminis-new
-calendar-capabilities-take-it-one-step-closer-to-being-your-ultimate-personal
-assistant


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