- Gemini -Messages now look like phone calls on some phones
- This should make it easier to tell when gemini is live
- Could be an early roll -out of a function or an A/B test
Last week, Google’s Gemini Live Service received his ‘Tale Live about this’ Update, which allows AI to have a real-time chat with you about the photos, files and YouTube videos showing on your device’s screen. Now it looks like Google is making a subtle fine tuning for the service’s review to make it look more like you’re calling a friend than chatting with a robot.
Usually when you’re in a live chat with Gemini and not in the app, the only sign on screen is a small message symbol at the top of the screen and a message in your review center that your microphone is on and Gemini can listen and answer you. As discovered by 9to5Google, some pixel smartphones instead show this review, as if it were a phone call – with a more obvious on screen chip that says you are living with Gemini and the opportunity to hang up or put Gemini on wait.
While this change seems to offer some user-friendly benefits-more about the below-can we don’t avoid feeling that this is a non-subtle trick from Google to make Gemini feel more like a friend you Calling rather than some essential, impersonal AI.
We should note that most people still do not see the style changes. This means that it could have been accidentally rolled out to a few selected or still in the A/B test stage. We have not been able to see call-style messages on any of our devices, with 9to5Google say it appeared on a “Pixel 9 Pro that runs Google App Beta Version 16.4” whatever suggests that this might Not a change that is ready for mass market.
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We hope this message change makes it more units, as a big advantage is that it acts as a more constant reminder that Gemini is listening in. The previous message was more hidden, so it was easy to forget that you still Was in a live chat with Gemini, even if you had left the app (until it apparently answered out of nowhere).
Now there is a constantly obvious reminder on the screen that AI is still at the other end of the line with a easy option for either team (I wonder what Gemini’s preferred choice of team music would be?).
This privacy consciousness will be particularly useful as Gemini grows its ability to respond to stimulus on screen. Currently, its more limited function kit means that there is not too much reason to let it run in the background – so you can just finish the conversation before leaving the app. But when Gemini gets better at helping you forget to turn off AI when you’re done using it.
At least that would be the case with the old review, and transforming the conversation into a call should be much more obvious self-self We will have to wait and see when or even whether this style fines will be rolled out more wide on a time in the future.
