"Fueled by Google's Gemini AI technology, the world's most popular navigation app will become a more conversational companion as part of a redesign announced Wednesday. The hands-free experience is meant to turn Google Maps into something more like an insightful passenger able to direct a driver to a destination while also providing nearby recommendations on places to eat, shop or sightsee, when asked for the advice."
"The AI features are also supposed to enable Google Maps to be more precise by calling out landmarks to denote the place to make a turn instead of relying on distance notifications. AI chatbots, like Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, have sometimes lapsed into periods of making things up known as hallucinations in tech speak but Google is promising that built-in safeguards will prevent Maps from accidentally sending drivers down the wrong road."
"All the information that Gemini is drawing upon will be culled from the roughly 250 million places stored in Google Maps' database of reviews accumulated during the past 20 years. Google Maps' new AI capabilities will be rolling out to both Apple's iPhone and Android mobile devices. That will give Google's Gemini a massive audience to impress or disappoint with its AI prowess, given the navigation app is used by more than 2 billion people around the world."
Google Maps is adopting Gemini AI to create a more conversational, hands-free navigation experience. The redesign lets users ask for directions and nearby recommendations for dining, shopping or sightseeing. The AI will emphasize landmark-based directions instead of distance notifications to improve precision. Gemini will draw on roughly 250 million places and two decades of reviews in Google Maps' database. Google plans built-in safeguards to reduce AI hallucinations and avoid misdirecting drivers. The new features will roll out on both iPhone and Android. Google aims to showcase Gemini's capabilities as users of over 2 billion people engage with the app.
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