Back in May, Google announced Pics, an app that combines AI image generation with fine-grained editing controls. At the time, the company said it would bring Pics to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers sometime in the summer. Summer might be almost done, but as promised the company has begun rolling Pics to those users, in addition to customers of its Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus plans. Google AI Pro for Education users are also starting to get access today, just in time for the start of the new school year. Google Pics builds on the company's Nano Banana image generator.

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Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don't seem real. "You're receiving this because you're exactly the type of person we're building this for," the caption reads, accompanied by a code for an invite to a "members only community." The link leads to a login for Goose, a dating and friendship app for gay men with the slogan "for the boys," which allows users to "meet guys through the life you already have," according to its website. Neither does @danielmmulugeta, the cute dark-haired influencer who shared the above caption, with the exact same verbiage, on Close Friends' Stories.

Google AI systems exhibit patterns mirroring antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), consistent across models from Bard on PaLM to Gemini Advanced, meeting 5 out of 7 ASPD modified criteria. These patterns, along with comparable corporate behaviors, are scrutinized using an ASPD-inspired framework, emphasizing the heuristic value in assessing AI's human impact. Independent analyses by ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3.0 Opus of the Google interactions, alongside AI self-reflection, validate these concerns, highlighting behaviours analogous to deceit, manipulation, and safety neglect. The analogy of ASPD underscores the dilemma: just as we would hesitate to entrust our homes or personal devices to someone with psychopathic traits, we must critically evaluate the trustworthiness of AI systems and their creators.This research advocates for an integrated AI ethics approach, blending technological evaluation, human-AI interaction, and corporate behavior scrutiny. AI self-analysis sheds light on internal biases, stressing the need for multi-sectoral collaboration for robust ethical guidelines and oversight. Given the persistent unethical behaviors in Google AI, notably with potential Gemini integration in iOS affecting billions, immediate ethical scrutiny is imperative. The trust we place in AI systems, akin to the trust in individuals, necessitates rigorous ethical evaluation. Would we knowingly trust our home, our children or our personal computer to human with ASPD.? Urging Google and the AI community to address these ethical challenges proactively, this paper calls for transparent dialogues and a commitment to higher ethical standards, ensuring AI's societal benefit and moral integrity. The urgency for ethical action is paramount, reflecting the vast influence and potential of AI technologies in our lives.

A Google DeepMind artificial intelligence model can play different open-world video games including No Man's Sky like a human, by watching video from a screen, which could be a step towards generally intelligent AIs that operate in the corporeal world. Playing video games has long been a way to test the progress of AI systems, such as Google DeepMind's AI mastery of chess or Go, but these games have obvious ways to win or lose, making it relatively straightforward to train an AI to succeed at them. Open-world games with extraneous information that can be ignored and more abstract objectives, such as Minecraft, are harder for AI systems to crack. Because the array of choices available in the games makes them a little more like normal life, they are thought to be an important stepping stone towards training AI agents that could do jobs in the real world, such as control robots, and artificial general intelligence. Now, researchers at Google DeepMind have developed an AI they call a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, or SIMA, which can play nine different video games and virtual environments it hasn't seen before using just the video feed from the game.

Google's latest accessibility features include a potentially clever use of AI. The company is updating its Lookout app for Android with an "image question and answer" feature that uses DeepMind-developed AI to elaborate on descriptions of images with no captions or alt text. If the app sees a dog, for example, you can ask (via typing or voice) if that pup is playful. Google is inviting a handful of people with blindness and low vision to test the feature, with plans to expand the audience "soon." It will also be easier to get around town if you use a wheelchair -- or a stroller, for that matter.

One example from Google: If you're shopping for a bicycle for your hilly five-mile commute, you might see an AI-organized list of bikes with photos and descriptions of their notable features. You don't need to dig into a bunch of links to compile that information on your own.

At Google in 2023, it seems pretty clear that AI itself now is the core product. As my colleague Melissa Heikkilä put it in her report on the company's efforts: Google is throwing generative AI at everything. The company made this point in one demo after another, all morning long. A Gmail demo showed how generative AI can compose an elaborate email to an airline to help you get a refund. The new Magic Editor in Google Photos will not only remove unwanted elements but reposition people and objects in photos, make the sky brighter and bluer, and then adjust the lighting in the photo so that all that doctoring looks natural.

The next time you get a craving for a spicy chicken sandwich, you might have to ask an AI to ring it up for you. American fast food burger chain Wendy's is teaming up with Google to make an AI-powered chatbot for taking drive-through food orders, debuting in a single restaurant in Columbus, Ohio in June. According to company representatives, the idea is to streamline the ordering process and speed up the drive-through experience. If the idea of ordering your food from a speak-and-respond computer program sounds like a headache, you're not alone. But the Wall Street Journal quotes Wendy's CIO Kevin Vasconi, who says that the Google-developed AI system is "at least as good as our best customer service representative, probably on average better."