Google I/O 2024 live updates: The latest on Gemini AI, Android 15 and more

Thanks for joining us. We're off to try and get a closer look at some of the things Google announced today at I/O.

Oh, and that Sundar bumped that final AI count up one more time to 121.

Who wants to bet if Google will top that next year?

Frankly I'm just glad it didn't last any longer than that. While Sam and Karissa go and check out whatever demos might be available at I/O 2024, come on over and join myself and senior reviewer Devindra Hardawar on Axget's YouTube channel. I'm sure you have thoughts and feelings to share on everything Google just announced!

And that's a wrap on the keynote, it was *just* under 2 hours of all things Gemini and AI.

120 mentions of "AI" in this keynote, according to Sundar (who just came back onstage) and Gemini. I actually would have guessed a bit higher.

Google, like most of its AI peers, plans to use watermarking to increase transparency around AI-generated content with SynthID. Those watermarks will be expanding to AI-generated video (remember those Veo demos from earlier?) and text, which is especially interesting because AI-generated text is so much more prevalent (and in some ways harder to detect than images or video).

SynthID is a tool that Google is making so that it's easy detect AI-generated content. But it also sounds like something from the Blade Runner universe that people can use to detect replicants.

We're getting into "building AI responsibly" portion, with a look at Google's approach to red-teaming, the process for looking for threats, "problematic" outputs and other issues that might cause problems for Google (and maybe the rest of us). After the fiasco with Gemini's image generator earlier this year, I'm actually surprised they waited this long to bring all this up.

So it appears we've reached the developer-focused section of the I/O keynote. Karissa and I were just talking about how for non-developers, it can be hard to contextualize the amounts of tokens available in various Gemini plans.

We're getting a deeper dive into Gemini Flash, which we first heard about at the top of the keynote. Flash is the "lighter weight" Gemini model that has lower latency and is more efficient. It sounds like this is meant for developers and organizations that don't need the full power of Gemini 1.5 Pro but still want to take advantage of multimodal capabilities.

Yea, I think the scam alert feature is really nice, because it can give you a gut check in real-time when you might be feeling that a call feels a little sus.

Josh Woodward is back to talk about various Gemini models available to developers.

Google has another solution to the never-ending scam calls. If you pick up, and it detects that the call is "suspicious" or a likely scam, it can surface a big alert right on your phone, potentially saving you from buying thousands of dollars of gift cards or transferring funds to a rogue account. A lot of those scams seem obvious, but people still fall for them and this might help.

Like, will we ever see the day where you're allowed to bring a phone to take the SATs? Because if not, you're potentially giving students an aid they might not being able to use during important evaluations, which might end up being a disadvantage.

Karissa, I think Circle to Search supporting formulas is weird because for older types like us (or at least me), it feels like cheating.