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Google Launches Real-Time Voice Conversations with AI-Powered Search
Google has introduced Search Live, enabling back-and-forth voice conversations with its AI Mode search feature using a custom version of Gemini. Users can now engage in free-flowing voice dialogues with Google Search, receiving AI-generated audio responses and exploring web links conversationally. The feature supports multitasking and background operation, with plans to add real-time camera-based queries in the future.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): The feature represents incremental progress in making AI more conversational and accessible, but focuses on search functionality rather than autonomous decision-making or control systems that would significantly impact existential risk scenarios.
Skynet Date (+0 days): The integration of advanced voice capabilities and multimodal features (planned camera integration) represents a modest acceleration in AI becoming more integrated into daily life and more naturally interactive.
AGI Progress (+0.02%): The deployment of conversational AI with multimodal capabilities (voice and planned vision integration) demonstrates meaningful progress toward more human-like AI interaction patterns. The custom Gemini model shows advancement in building specialized AI systems for complex, contextual tasks.
AGI Date (+0 days): Google's rapid deployment of advanced conversational AI features and plans for real-time multimodal capabilities suggest an acceleration in the pace of AI capability development and commercial deployment.