- The new Google mixboard meter offers the IA and Remez of Images
- Users can create and edit ideas boards using text indications
- Mixboard is available as an experimental beta in the United States
Google is testing a new artificial intelligence experiment for “Visual concept boards” called Mixboard. The new tool incorporates AI in the classic humor tables to “explore, expand and refine” ideas, officially. But really, it allows you to see the possibilities produced by AI based on indications that range from “cozy minimalist house” or “retro board game with space themes”, to Halloween costumes for dogs such as those seen above.
The canvases of AI generated images, colored palettes, sample text and more. It is part of Sketchpad assisted by AI and a partial collage to the Pinterest or Canva. But Mixboard leans strongly in the co-creation of AI in a way that those tools are not yet. Mixboard starts like an almost blank canvas with a fast bar. Add some descriptive words, and Mixboard will use the popular generator of Nano Banana Ai from Google to do almost anything that can suggest.
Nano Banana, who first caught the attention for her creations of 3D figures, is doing a much more subtle job within the mixing table. It allows you to adjust the images with natural language, pushing compositions in different moods. You can import your own images, edit them with AI or build completely new boards using a combination of existing indications and templates. If it is close, but not quite there, you can regenerate the board or ask for “more” so that the new variants are.
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Google is launching mixboard as the starting place for ideas and rain of ideas. It is not for complex presentations and detailed edition, only approximate descriptions and playing with AI responses. That does not mean that it does not have friction. As with all the tools of AI, the utility depends largely on the quality of the indications. But it is doing quite well even with strange applications such as birds with salted eyes.
Mixboard occupies a different corner of the imagination than the other generative tools of Google in some way. The general description of Gemini and AI are designed for direct answers, while Notebooklm is more suitable to help with structured thinking and education. Mixboard is more loose and more intuitive in format.
Google is, for now, keeping an experiment into Mixboard within the US. The company says it is still meditating on how people use it and where there could be problems. Even so, the grooves of the mixing table perfectly in Google’s efforts to make your AI useful for the creative process.
It also stands out as a rival for other most friendly image tools with the consumer. For example, Meta has been experiencing with edition with Instagram and Threads, and Pinterest is testing intelligent inspiration tools remembered by boards with AI. But most of these tools treat AI as an assistant at the end of a process. Mixboard integrates in the process from the beginning.
