Google I/O always brings huge and exciting announcements. Here's what's on tap for the 2018 edition of Google's annual developer conference!
Google Photos
Google Photos is getting new features to make sharing easier. Suggested Sharing can help you find the best pictures of your friends, and share them, using machine learning to recognize people in photos, and offers to share with that person, based on your own sharing patterns.
The new Shared Libraries feature can help to automate sharing of pictures of specific people, things or places. Shared Libraries can notify recipients of new photos, and automatically save photos to personal library — no more worrying about whose phone has which photos. Suggested Sharing and Libraries will be rolling out on iOS, Android and the web in the coming weeks.
In addition, Google Photos is making use of AI to further enhance photos. Coming in the next few months, Photos will be able to recognize shots of documents and convert them to PDF files. It will also be able to suggest automatic brightness enhancements and even colorize old black and white photos, as well as recognizing faces and selectively desaturating the background to make subjects pop.
AI
Google's been making a big bet on AI for a few years now, and this year's I/O proved to be no different. For 2018, Google's focusing its AI efforts on the healthcare and accessibility.
On the healthcare front, Google's using AI to help doctors around the world discover and diagnose cardiovascular disease by performing retina scans. By scanning a patient's eye, AI can determine age, gender, if a person smokes, and more to find these potential health risks.
Additionally, Google's also using AI to predict medical events by scanning over 100,000 data points for every patient – giving doctors more time to act and respond to situations than before.
As for accessibility, machine learning is being used to create closed captions for multiple people on a screen at once by picking up on audio and video cues in a clip. Gboard is also picking up support for morse code to make it easier than ever for more people to easily communicate with friends and family.
All of this is getting powered in part by Google's newest Tensor Processing Unit 3.0. The new TPU units are so powerful that Google had to build liquid cooling into their data centers, and each TPU bundle has more than 100 PetaFLOPS of processing power.
Gmail
Gmail got a revamped user interface earlier this month, and Google is now introducing Smart Compose. The feature leverages machine learning to predict full sentences based on just a few letters or words.
For instance, if you're typing out your address, Smart Compose will recognize the context and autofill your location details in the sentence. The feature will be rolling out to all users from later this month.
More to come!
There's lots more to come at Google I/O, so stay tuned!
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