LAS VEGAS: Google has added Bengali, Tamil and Telugu, amongst 52 further languages it has introduced, to its ‘Workspace’ — a platform with 3 billion customers comprising AI-powered apps like Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Drive and Docs.
The tech big is seeing “India as a robust market with Workspace, each in client area in addition to companies”, Google Workspace VP and GM Aparna Pappu mentioned on the Google Cloud Subsequent ’24 convention right here lately.
She additionally introduced an AI-powered video creation app for work — Google Vids — to be launched in June in Google Workspace Labs, together with a slew of different new choices.
“In our preliminary launch, we had supported Hindi. Of the 52 further languages that we’ve launched and introduced, we’ve Bengali, Tamil and Telugu in there as properly. That’s as a result of that’s the place consumer curiosity is,” she added.
“We have now been spending numerous time understanding what small companies imply in India. A crew shall be visiting India to search out out features like what companies want over there, does our highway map match theirs,” she mentioned.
“Vids is video, writing, manufacturing and modifying assistant — multi functional — and may work alongside Google’s different productiveness instruments like Docs, Sheets and Slides. Individuals inform tales at work on a regular basis, whether or not it’s HR onboarding new staff to the organisation’s mission, coaching crew creating digital studying experiences or a gross sales particular person pitching a brand new consumer on the advantages of their providing. Now, everybody generally is a nice storyteller via video,” she mentioned.
On the menace of faux movies particularly in an election 12 months, Aparna mentioned: “One of many issues that makes Workspace an important area to deploy AI is the important thing precept that the consumer is in cost. The consumer makes the choice. You’re taking duty as an creator and as a collaborator. Your identify is related to the doc. That modifications the character of sort of stuff individuals create,” she mentioned.
And, as govts internationally deliberate on introducing laws to manage applied sciences comparable to AI, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian mentioned the necessity to make sure that any coverage launched needs to be implementable technologically. “We’re discussing the problem with govts together with the US and nations in Europe and Latin America. We have now at all times been open to coverage and regulation fashions,” Kurian mentioned, throughout a roundtable with mediapersons. “We have to be sure that at any time when a coverage is drawn up, it could really be applied technologically. As a result of all that is piece of software program, and you’ll wish to put a coverage on there, that may be applied on software program,” Kurian mentioned.
(This author was in Las Vegas on the invitation of Google)
The tech big is seeing “India as a robust market with Workspace, each in client area in addition to companies”, Google Workspace VP and GM Aparna Pappu mentioned on the Google Cloud Subsequent ’24 convention right here lately.
She additionally introduced an AI-powered video creation app for work — Google Vids — to be launched in June in Google Workspace Labs, together with a slew of different new choices.
“In our preliminary launch, we had supported Hindi. Of the 52 further languages that we’ve launched and introduced, we’ve Bengali, Tamil and Telugu in there as properly. That’s as a result of that’s the place consumer curiosity is,” she added.
“We have now been spending numerous time understanding what small companies imply in India. A crew shall be visiting India to search out out features like what companies want over there, does our highway map match theirs,” she mentioned.
“Vids is video, writing, manufacturing and modifying assistant — multi functional — and may work alongside Google’s different productiveness instruments like Docs, Sheets and Slides. Individuals inform tales at work on a regular basis, whether or not it’s HR onboarding new staff to the organisation’s mission, coaching crew creating digital studying experiences or a gross sales particular person pitching a brand new consumer on the advantages of their providing. Now, everybody generally is a nice storyteller via video,” she mentioned.
On the menace of faux movies particularly in an election 12 months, Aparna mentioned: “One of many issues that makes Workspace an important area to deploy AI is the important thing precept that the consumer is in cost. The consumer makes the choice. You’re taking duty as an creator and as a collaborator. Your identify is related to the doc. That modifications the character of sort of stuff individuals create,” she mentioned.
And, as govts internationally deliberate on introducing laws to manage applied sciences comparable to AI, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian mentioned the necessity to make sure that any coverage launched needs to be implementable technologically. “We’re discussing the problem with govts together with the US and nations in Europe and Latin America. We have now at all times been open to coverage and regulation fashions,” Kurian mentioned, throughout a roundtable with mediapersons. “We have to be sure that at any time when a coverage is drawn up, it could really be applied technologically. As a result of all that is piece of software program, and you’ll wish to put a coverage on there, that may be applied on software program,” Kurian mentioned.
(This author was in Las Vegas on the invitation of Google)
