- The new Google portrait experiment allows users to chat with avatars of the models in real experts.
- The first project portrait is Radical frankness Author Kim Scott.
- The Avatar offers tips based on the real content of Scott and developed with its direct participation.
Google is testing a tool to connect people with all kinds of experts, or at least their AI equivalents.
The new portrait function, available on Google Labs, allows you to chat one with the avatars of the models after experts in real life and built with your contributions. The initial portrait is a facsimile of the Radical frankness Author Kim Scott.
Think about it as a zoom call with a life coach who has recently given a successful Ted talk (and yes, the name is more than a bit suggestive of the Harry Potter magical paintings).
If you are in the United States, you can register in portraits through Google Labs and, once approved, talk to Kim Scott right now. You will hear his voice (or a clone of his voice) greet, and you can chat immediately. His experience is about leadership and management, so his portrait will focus on these issues.
So, if you are not sure how to comment to your boss, navigate complex labor relations or overcome impostor syndrome, she is her digital muse. The answers are based on their real work, filtered through the Google Gemini Ai model.
It is important to note that the portrait was developed with the comments and vision of Scott. This means that ideas, the way of speaking and even their tone are consistent with the way it would really behave in a real conversation.
AI does not really know him, but the answers (which they can say or write) feel more personalized than a blog post and more personal than a YouTube video.
Talking to the Ia Kim Scott with Google’s portraits, I was impressed by the realism of the voice and the language options on how AI spoke; He definitely sounded like a real person unless he listened carefully.
On the other hand, the portrait is necessarily limited in what it will discuss. It feels like when, when you are a child, you are talking to a teacher who is centered on the laser in the lesson plan and will not be distracted by any attempt to leave the subject.
Personal portraits
Google has not hinted at any specific plan for other people to become portraits, but it is easy to imagine a stable of Aye that provide all kinds of specialization and with the seal of approval of humans behind faces and voices.
You could talk to Neil Degrasse Tyson about space, or Dolly Parton on how to write songs and make a program. Unlike other ways to imitate people with AI, such as intelligent indications to Chatgpt or the available collection of the characters, could trust these digital mentors to say things that the real person would do.
That is the bet that Google seems to be doing. It is not that AI replaces human mentors, but could distribute their knowledge more uniform and make it more accessible. You do not need to agree with everything AI says to appreciate the potential here.
And at least now you can say that Kim Scott told you how to be “a more kicking leader without losing your humanity.”
