I tried portraits: the new way of Google to change real experts in your own personal AI Life Coach
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- With the new portraits of Google, users can chat with AI Avatars modeled on real experts.
- The first portrait of the project is Public frankness Author Kim Scott.
- The Avatar provides advice based on the actual content of Scott and has been developed with its direct involvement.
Google tests a tool to connect people with all kinds of experts, or at least their AI equivalents.
The new Portraits function, available in Google LabsLet you chat one on one with AI Avatars modeled to experts in life and built with their input. The first portrait is an AI Facsimile of Public frankness Author Kim Scott.
Think of it as a zoom call with a life coach who recently gave a successful TED talk (and yes, the name is more than a bit suggestive for the Harry Potter Magic paintings).
If you are in the US, you can sign up for portraits via Google Labs and, once approved, now talk to Kim Scott. You hear her voice (or an AI clone of her voice) say hello and you can chat right away. Her expertise is about leadership and management, so her portrait will focus on those topics.
So if you are not sure how you can give feedback to your boss, navigate complex working relationships or overcome the impostor syndrome, it is your digital muse. The answers are built on its actual work, filtered via Google’s Gemini Ai model.
It is important that the portrait has been developed with the feedback and insight of Scott. This means that the ideas, way of speaking and even her tone are all consistent with how she would behave in a real conversation.
The AI doesn’t really know you, but the answers (who can say or write) feel more tailor -made than a blog post and more personal than one YouTube video.
In conversation with the AI Kim Scott with Google portraits, I was impressed by the realism of the voice and the language choices in how the AI spoke; It was absolutely 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 you are talking as a child with a teacher who is laser-oriented on the lesson plan and is not distracted by an attempt to go off-topic.
Personal portraits
Google has not suggested specific plans for other people who become portraits, but it is easy to introduce you to a whole stable of AI Avatars that offers all kinds of expertise and with the seal of people’s approval behind the faces and voices.
You could talk about space with Neil Degrasse Tyson, or Dolly Parton about writing songs and set up a show. Unlike other ways to simulate people with AI, such as smart prompts to chatgpt or the collection that is available at Character AI, you could trust these digital mentors to say things that the real person would do.
That is the Betting Google seems to make. Not that AI will replace human mentors, but that it can spread their knowledge more evenly and make it more accessible. You don’t have to agree with everything the AI says to appreciate the potential here.
And now you can say that Kim Scott told you how you can “be a more kick-ass leader without losing your humanity.”
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