Google's Gemini: The new AI chatbot and its role in everyday life

AI attack! Google Launches Massive Chatbot Offensive

2025-05-23 Source: dpa | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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At its developer conference I/O, Google has now announced how the Gemini app will proceed. With it, they also aim to make life more difficult for competitors ...(Image: Google) — At its developer conference I/O, Google has now announced how the Gemini app will proceed. With it, they also aim to make life more difficult for competitors ...
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At the Google I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its vision for chatbots, showcasing how its type of artificial intelligence (AI) can accompany users in their daily lives to make life easier. Cameras from smartphones and smart glasses play a central role, allowing the AI to recognize what the person is currently looking at. The centerpiece of the plan is called Gemini—Google's answer to ChatGPT and other chatbots. Behind Gemini is a tangle of AI models for various tasks, ranging from personalized web search to automated shopping advice.

Google Aims to Create the Proactive AI App

The Google managers also left no doubt about the company's ambitions at the conference. The ultimate vision for the Gemini app is to transform it into a universal AI system. This AI system is intended to be tailored to the users and offer its services proactively, rather than just responding to their inquiries, as further learned. The basis for Google's push is its well-known role as a dominant search engine, which captures virtually all information on the web and establishes a direct connection to users. In competition with new AI rivals, Google is simultaneously enhancing its web search with artificial intelligence. The goal is that instead of a list of web links, users will more frequently receive detailed answers and can also ask further questions, as the Google decision-makers explain. The first step taken towards this is called "Overview with AI" in Germany.

This Will be the Next Stage of AI

The next level, according to Google, is the AI mode, which can provide more detailed and reasoned answers to search queries. For instance, it could learn to handle shopping advice when searching for an appliance. If you're looking for an apartment or tickets to an event, the software should be able to independently search the web to find the best selection. If desired, the program in this so-called "Agent Mode" could also book an apartment viewing appointment. And if a price alert has been set up for a product search, Gemini could also make purchases independently. Google demonstrated how AI can assist in repairing a bicycle. You can ask Gemini for the right spare parts and have it procure them, and also point the smartphone camera at individual screws to learn which tool is needed. To keep hands free, this role will be taken over by cameras in smart glasses.

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