Artificial intelligence is a continuous buzzword in the digital space, and it’s no wonder why. Its contribution to the internet allows you to enjoy an advanced online experience, making it easier to perform tasks online.
Google offers a wide range of tools that allow you to complete various tasks every day, but did you know that some of them actually use AI already? These AI-powered features make Google's apps even more efficient. Here, we’ll look at six ways Google Apps use AI to help you every day.
1. Gmail
In Gmail, you can write emails quickly and effectively with tools like smart compose and smart reply. Through artificial intelligence, Gmail scans all your emails and uses that information to give you quick responses.
Smart reply is useful for anyone who has multiple emails that they want to quickly get through. On the other hand, smart compose is a feature that Gmail uses to help you generate emails according to your writing style.
The difference between the two is that smart reply gives you one-tap responses, whereas smart compose will suggest words and phrases as you type.
That's not all, artificial intelligence also plays an important role through features that aren't as noticeable. These include filtering out your spam emails into the spam box and sorting your other emails.
2. Google Maps
The use of AI not only allows Google Maps to guide you safely to your destination, but it also makes navigation easier.
Google's AI technology helps Google Maps to map out locations much faster than in the past. The app lets you to navigate safely and avoid accidents by identifying potentially dangerous routes, such as those where drivers frequently come across hard-braking events on the road.
Google can do this through two groups of data. The first set of information is gathered through phone sensors that can sense instances where drivers using Google Maps slam on the brakes.
The second set of data is collected through Google Maps routes that are shown on the car display, like when you connect your car to Android Auto. If you're a pedestrian or a cyclist, AI helps you access detailed information regarding the road width, sidewalks, bike routes, pedestrian islands, and crosswalks.
3. Google Search Features
Whether you're a student, an average internet user, or you do most of your work online, the Google Search no doubt plays a huge role in your regular search for knowledge.
Google makes use of advanced technologies to elevate your search experience. Because of AI, you're able to search in various languages, or even search using images. Google Lens uses high-powered technology to analyze your images and find similar content on the internet.
AI also helps you benefit from voice features like voice search, where you can search through Google by voicing out your search.
Additionally, if there's a song you’re looking for, and you can't remember the song title, you can simply use Google's hum to search feature to find songs by simply humming the rhythm of the song.
4. Google Assistant
Google Assistant not only helps you get answers on your smartphone, but it can help you in other aspects of your daily life, such as your smart displays, TVs, smart speakers, your car, wearable devices, and more. Google Assistant uses AI to process what you're communicating, as well as the language you’re speaking in.
This comes in handy when you want to save time, and it especially helps if your hands are occupied. Google Assistant allows you to multitask and avoid manually performing a task with your hands, which is one of the many ways it can make your life easier.
There's a lot that you can do to use Google Assistant to its full potential, like setting automated routines, adding your dietary preferences, creating personalized shortcuts, and much more.
5. YouTube
YouTube is used by millions of users and holds a large database of video content. To increase the efficiency of this platform, Google has incorporated AI in a few creative ways.
If you prefer or need to use captions to enhance your viewing experience then you most likely use captions whenever they're available, YouTube lets you access auto-generated captions for most videos.
Captions on YouTube videos are automatically created through high-powered speech recognition. It typically takes YouTube a few hours to load captions, but some videos might not automatically have captions because of poor sound quality, overlapping sound, multiple languages in the video, and other issues.
YouTube also uses AI through other features like automatic video chapters. This is useful when you want to know exactly what the video will cover, or when you want to skip to a particular section in the video.
Additionally, YouTube’s AutoPlay feature gives you recommendations on what to watch next. Through AI systems like deep learning, YouTube can focus on your niche markets and recommend quality content.
6. Google Workspace
Google Workspace is one of the platforms that are at the forefront of collaborative and remote work.
Your experience on Google Workspace is enhanced through AI systems in multiple ways. Whether you have a meeting on Google meet, spreadsheets to compile on Google Spreadsheets, a file to draft on Google Docs, and so on.
Google Sheets has an explore feature to help you speed up your work by analyzing your data for you. Instead of spending time trying to analyze data on your own, you can use the explore feature to use the suggested question or create questions about your data.
If you’re typing on Google Docs and you want to save yourself some time, the voice typing feature is available for you to use. Through AI-powered speech to text technology, Google Docs is able to recognize your speech and transcribe it for you onto your file.
If you were part of a meeting on Google meet and your host saved the transcription of your meeting, you’re able to go back and catch up on what you might have missed. This is yet another way Google takes advantage of AI-powered speech recognition to make your life easier.
Use AI Tools in Your Daily Life
AI is all around us and almost unavoidable, it helps you save time, complete tasks, and makes the digital space more enjoyable. The points mentioned in this article show you exactly how some of the Google tools you use regularly rely on AI to bring you the best digital experience.
And it certainly doesn’t end with Google's apps–there are plenty of other AI-powered tools online that help you every day.