Google, as part of its goal to attract business by supplying tools to build enterprise AI apps, supporting drivers using a smartphone app, and also providing crucial features for an AI assistant for Volkswagen.
Customers may use their phones to take pictures of car dashboards and ask enquiries like “How do I change a flat tyre?” to Volkswagen’s in-app assistant.
The AI assistant uses cloud computing power, Google’s Gemini big language models, and programs that comprehend and produce predictions in response to human language.
The Volkswagen tool was created by populating Gemini with information from YouTube videos on car maintenance and owner’s manuals for Volkswagen vehicles.
Multimodality, or the capacity to process many data types including text, photos, and videos, was one of the technical challenges that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said had to be overcome for the product.
According to Kurian, “the problem appears simple on the surface, but it’s extremely complex technically.”
“Most people mistakenly believe that what we created is a system for translating speech to text that then consults a handbook”.
The AI helper is accessible to around 120,000 owners of Volkswagen’s Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport cars and costs nothing. By early next year, it will be available for other vehicles with model years 2020 and newer.
Laptops 1000The adoption of generative AI by corporations has the potential to transform the profitable cloud computing sector, in which Google is ranked third in market share, after Amazon and Microsoft.
The majority of businesses are still looking for applications that users will find useful.
In 2023, cloud computing will provide $33 billion of Google’s $307 billion total income, making it a rising business division.
