Google's SGE can now generate images from text prompts and write drafts

SGE (Search Generative Experience), Google's AI-powered search function, is learning new tricks starting today. The AI function, which adds a conversational mode to Search, will now be able to produce pictures directly in SGE, comparable to rival Bing's support for OpenAI's DALLE-E 3.Furthermore, SGE will now allow users to create drafts within SGE, allowing you to tailor the output to be longer or shorter, as well as adjust the tone of the writing to be more serious or informal.

The new features follow a flurry of upgrades to SGE as the pace of AI technology development quickens. SGE has already received additional skills in recent months, such as writing AI-powered summaries and creating explanations of unknown terminology, in addition to code enhancements and travel and product search options, among other things.

With the new AI picture production tool, you may provide a prompt indicating the type of image you desire, such as a sketch, photo, or painting. In the SGE conversational experience, SGE will deliver four results. From there, you tap on the images, which can be downloaded as .png files, or edit the prompt that created the images to generate a new set. The functionality is backed by Google's Imagen text-to-image technology behind the hood.

Google recognizes that its tools aren't perfect, which is why they're still opt-in, for starters, via Google Search Labs. They will also include a feedback system for consumers to complain when the technology fails or is abused. Nonetheless, the corporation feels it has done a decent job with the deployment of its filters and believes that individuals may face more obstacles than they expect.

The photographs will also have metadata encoded in the files that identify them as AI-generated, as well as invisible watermarking. This is driven by SynthID, which was unveiled by Google Cloud and Google DeepMind at the end of August.

The other new feature enhances SGE's potential to function as a writing assistance. SGE could already give a written draft, which Google coupled with the concept that users would wish to compose an email to the firms whose adverts or links they discovered through Search. However, this draft writing capability may now generate multiple forms of writing, such as larger or shorter sentences, or adjusting the tone to be more serious or informal.

Export options will be provided through SGE for both of the new features — alternate drafts and image generation. In the former instance, you can export your writing to Google Workspace apps such as Gmail or Google Docs. Meanwhile, you can save the photographs you create to Google Drive.

Both functionalities will be available to a subset of SGE users beginning tomorrow, and will subsequently be expanded to the entire user base over the next few weeks. They will be available to people who have opted in to utilize SGE via Google Search Labs and are now only available in English in the United States, despite the fact that SGE has recently been pushed out to India and Japan.