- Google’s new portrait experiment allows users to chat with AI avatars modeled on real experts.
- The first portrait of the project is Radical light Author Kim Scott.
- Avatar provides advice based on Scott’s actual content and was developed with her direct involvement.
Google tests a tool to connect people with all kinds of experts or at least their AI equivalents.
The new portrait feature available in Google Labs allows you to chat a -to -One with AI -Avatars modeled by experts in reality and built with their input. The original portrait is an AI -Faximile of Radical light Author Kim Scott.
Think of it as a zoom call with a life coach that recently gave a successful ted speech (and yes, the name is more than a little suggest Harry Potter Magical Paintings).
If you are in the US, you can sign up for portraits via Google Labs and once you are approved, talk to Kim Scott right now. You hear her voice (or an ai clone of her voice) say hello and you can chat right back. Her expertise is about leadership and leadership, so her portrait will focus on these topics.
So if you are not sure how to give feedback to your boss, navigate complex working conditions or overcome imposter syndrome, she is your digital muse. The answers are built on her actual work, filtered through Google’s Gemini AI model.
It is important that the portrait was developed with Scott’s feedback and insight. This means that the ideas, way of speaking and even her tone are everyone in line with how she would actually behave in a real conversation.
AI actually doesn’t know you, but the answers (as it can say or write) feel more tailor made than a blog post and more personal than a YouTube video.
When I talked to Ai Kim Scott with Google portraits, I was impressed with the realism of the voice and the language choices in how AI spoke; It certainly sounded like a real person unless I listened carefully.
On the other hand, the portrait of necessity is limited in what it will discuss. It feels like when you as a child talk to a teacher who is laser-focused on the lesson plan and will not be distracted by any attempt to go off-topic.
Personal portraits
Google has not suggested any specific plans for other people to become portraits, but it’s easy to imagine a whole barn of AI avatars that deliver all kinds of expertise and with the approval of the man behind the faces and voices.
You could talk to Neil Degrasse Tyson about Space or Dolly Parton about how to write songs and put on a show. Unlike other ways of emulating people with AI, as smart requests for chatgpt or the collection available from character AI, you can trust these digital mentors to say things the right person would.
That’s the effort that Google seems to make. Not that AI will replace human mentors, but that it can distribute their knowledge more evenly and make it more accessible. You don’t have 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 kick-ass leader without losing your humanity.”
