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Tech T@lk
the Game Awards to take Google Lens takes visual
place in december search to a new level
he 2021 edition of The The show organisers have also ith a new, more ad- box will pop up where you can
Game Awards, which is promised that there will be vanced AI system, plumb Google for more in-
Tthe annual Oscars-like “free playable game content” WGoogle Lens can formation about that specific
award show for video games, available as part of an “immer- now understand and answer image, like “What kind of ele-
has been announced to take sive digital experience. Like questions about an image. Ac- phant is this?” or “How many
place on December 9. in previous years, The Game cording to Mashable, Google of these elephants are left in
According to The Verge, the Awards will also feature “first- has unveiled what seems like a the world?”
show will take place at the Mi- look world premieres and new really useful and almost scari- That involves so many lay-
crosoft Theater in Los Ange- game announcements.” ly advanced new way to search ers of AI processing it’s ac-
les, and unlike last year, there There was some big news with images. tually hard to comprehend.
will be an in-person audience, in 2020, including the an- Google Lens already lets It understands what’s in the
though it will be an invite-on- nouncements of Master Chief you search based on an im- picture, it understands your
ly event. Details about specif- in ‘Fortnite’ and Sephiroth in age. For example, if you take question, and it understands
ic health and safety protocols ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’, a picture of an elephant, how your question relates to
for the in-person event will be and Microsoft also brought a you’ll probably get Google the picture.
shared “in the coming weeks,” huge surprise to the 2019 show Lens search results back for And, of course, it (osten-
according to a press release. with its reveal of the Xbox Se- “elephant”. But now you can sibly) gives you the answers
The awards, which will be ries X. tap a picture you’ve taken, or you’re looking for.
hosted by creator and execu- As per The Verge, there one that you’ve saved in your Making it all possible is a
tive producer Geoff Keighley, aren’t any details about what library, and ask a question new, more advanced AI sys-
will also be live-streamed on announcements to expect this about it. tem called Multitask Unified
more than 40 different plat- year, but if past years are any Take the elephant: Just Model (or MUM), announced
forms, so people will be able to indication, there could be some tap the photo for the ability in May, that is beginning to
watch from home if they want. fun surprises in store. to “Add Questions” and a text power Search.
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