2001: A Space Odyssey is over 50 years old now yet its talking AI, HAL 9000, remains iconic. However, the reality of talking AIs has been pretty disappointing – Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant are useful, but they rarely feel smart. That is changing and changing fast. Google is setting the stage (literally) for its annual I/O conference (you can watch the livestream here, it starts at 17:00 UTC) and shared a teaser of what’s to come – its Gemini AI has learned new tricks. It’s a “multi-modal” AI, meaning that it can seamlessly incorporate text, audio and imagery. This allows it to run on...

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