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Google Research chief predicts children will soon be tutored by AI

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Google is developing personal tutor technology on its LearnLM generative AI platform. Mr Matias said it would be widely adopted soon. That would include automated quizzing technology to test knowledge, and large language model chatbots that can converse and tutor people.

“In education, I think we’re kind of in the nascent stage,” Mr Matias told The Australian Financial Review AI Summit. “But my anticipation is that in just a few years, it’s going to be kind of expected that everybody’s just using it all the time. And again, one thing about the pace is that if you look at it, there are many things that today looked science fiction just a couple of years ago. So it’s really difficult to imagine how things are going.”

In healthcare, he said Google Research had been experimenting with AI to help doctors with diagnoses. “Healthcare is one of the areas that AI can already – and is already – saving lives and improving the lives of many,” Mr Matias said. AI can read breast cancer scans, he said, to determine whether a person should go for a second check-up.

“Again, not to replace the diagnostic of the doctor, but to help out with identifying cases for second screening,” he said. “And suddenly instead of waiting a few weeks before that call back to a second screening, some of the patients will actually get the second screening on the spot before they leave the hospital.”

On the climate front, Google has been looking at using satellites to measure and map bushfires and chart the genome of Tasmania’s giant kelp forests.

“The question we had was ‘can we use AI to identify wildfires as early as possible?’ And using satellite imagery and AI models that are trained on historical data and in collaboration with the right agencies, we’re able now to provide this boundary for bushfires in Australia.”

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