{"id":6238,"date":"2018-05-11T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2019-09-25T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:56:35","slug":"14-revelations-at-google-io-2018-that-left-the-world-amazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/14-revelations-at-google-io-2018-that-left-the-world-amazed\/","title":{"rendered":"14 revelations at Google I\/O 2018 that left the world amazed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google kick-started its annual developer conference titled \u2018Google I\/O\u2019 on Tuesday, 8th May 2018. The Google I\/O is where the Google executives reveal the company\u2019s plans, launch new products and introduce the world to technological advancements made by them. This year, the event started off gloriously as the announcements made left us all spell bound.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event is planned to go on for 3 days – May 8, 9 and 10. <\/span>Here<\/span><\/a> is the full schedule and the planned agenda of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Android app developers<\/strong><\/a> are extremely excited after these announcements as the future of app development in android will be taking a high-road of progress after the launch of these features. For those who missed the event of 8th May, here is a complete summary of the announcements made at the event:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Google AI in healthcare:<\/b> Google developed a retinal scanner that can detect diabetic retinopathy. The AI enabled retinal scanners are capable of offering a lot more insights than what humans could. Through just a retinal scan Google AI could offer accurate information of the patient\u2019s age, sex, blood pressure, smoking habits, diabetic status, BMI and can even predict cardiovascular risks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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AI will also help doctors to predict medical events. Through the machine learning system, medical records of patients were analysed and it was understood that by <\/span>analysing over 100,000 data points per patient, one can predict if the patient is likely to get critically sick and thus, a doctor can predict the chances of readmission of the patient 48 hours prior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong>\u00a0Google AI for accessibility:<\/b> The machine learning technology called \u2018<\/span>Looking to Listen<\/b>\u2019 has been enhanced and developed to look for audio cues and combine it with visual cues and thus disambiguate overlapping voices in a video to assist easy listening for hearing impaired people who rely on closed captioning.<\/span>
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3.\u00a0<\/strong>Gboard and morse code:<\/b> The Google team has built support for morse code in the Gboard that enables the user to type in morse code and get text output along with word predictions and suggestions.<\/span>
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4. A redesigned Gmail: The new, updated layout of Gmail has already been rolled out to users. There is another feature that is being incorporated in Gmail and that is called<\/span><\/b><\/b> \u2018the smart compose\u2019.<\/strong> Through machine learning, Gmail suggests phrases while composing emails and the phrase suggesting capabilities seems really impressive as shown in the demo and it will be rolled out to all the gmail users by the end of this month.<\/span>
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5. Google photos:<\/strong> The photo viewer experience has been improved by the addition of a feature called \u2018<\/strong><\/span>suggested actions<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>. This feature has capability to detect the picture elements and suggest to fix the brightness level for underexposed photos, share it with other people who are in the picture and also detect documents and convert it into PDF format. These are just a few out of many things that one can do on Google photos with just one tap. Also, features of pop colour and adding colour into a black and white image are the highlights of the new update.<\/span>
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6. The launch of TPU 3.0:<\/strong> Google announced that it will be rolling out the third generation of the Tensor Processor Unit – TPU 3.0. This is expected to take machine learning and customised AI to an altogether another level. The 3.0 model is said to be 8 times more powerful than the 2.0 version that was launched the last year. This is expected to be the biggest breakthrough in the field of machine learning hardware.<\/span>
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7. Google Assistant features:<\/strong> This was the biggest attraction of the Google I\/O 2018 event as the world was awaiting to watch how Google Assistant will step up its game to take on its competitors – Siri and Amazon Alexa. Ofcourse, the wait was worth it!<\/span>
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\n<\/span>A breakthrough named \u2018<\/strong><\/span>wavenet<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong> was able to add <\/span>6 new voices to the Google Assistant, one of out of those was of John Legend<\/strong>, that sound extremely similar to how humans converse including all the pitches, the pace and all the pauses that convey meaning.<\/span>
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Through this, the voices sound more human and the machine learning has enabled the assistant to become naturally conversational and visually assistive. Here are all the new features added to it:<\/span><\/p>\n