TECH NEWS – What was the point of renaming Google’s ChatGPT competitor?

Google can’t use one name for many services and is slowly trying to apply AI everywhere. Now Google Maps is getting content-generating (generative) AI to help users find interesting places, regardless of what search they use in the app. Google says on its blog that it will rely on its Large Linguistic Model (LLM) to analyze information from more than 250 million locations, including community feedback, and that when used properly, the feature will help users find places that might be of interest to them. For example, if you’re doing something on a rainy day, it can suggest indoor activities (movie theaters, stand-up comedy nights, that kind of thing).

Using generative artificial intelligence, you can ask additional questions that take into account your previous searches, which may sound unusual on paper but can become useful over time. The results are broken down into categories, and users even get image galleries and ratings. You can also save the page and share it with friends. It’s all just an experiment for now, and it’s launching in early access in the US this week with a limited number of local guides.

And Google Bard has a new name: it’s now called Gemini, so the previously rumored Assistant with Bard will have a different name. There’s evidence of the new name: on a website, Google now openly states that “Bard is now Gemini”, and it’s available not only on mobile, but also on PC. Bard Advanced may also be called Gemini Advanced in the future. The leaker of the new name, Dynal Roussel, has seen the death and renaming of many Google services and after a while he didn’t see the logic of it all. Even if the company is successful, he believes that something is still missing and he doesn’t think that the rebranding should have been dropped because it is detrimental to the brand identity.

Source: WCCFTech, WCCFTech, Google Blog, Dylan Roussel