By the end of the year, it will be possible to start “flying over” different cities using the Google Maps mobile application, wave or on the computer. With the new global view from Google Maps, it will be possible to see the weather in the city at different times of the day and “peek” inside restaurants to see if the weather is pleasant.
The tool was announced on Wednesday during the I/O conference which is Google’s most important developer event and takes place annually in Mountain View, California. Tokyo in Japan, London in the United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in the United States will be the first urban areas available.
“We’ve combined billions of aerial and city street shots to create a visual representation of locations. This allows you to explore a city in a new way,” explained Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, on stage. Using the all inclusive offer, if you are thinking of visiting Big Ben [em Londres]You can see the traffic, how crowded the area is, and even the weather,” he suggested. “If you plan to stop to eat during your trip, you can check out nearby restaurants and go inside to look at the surroundings. What’s impressive is that we didn’t use a drone [para obter as imagens]. We use neural network processing to create an experience from images.”
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During I/O, Google also announced several other new features, including the ability for algorithms to translate new languages without hearing them before, as well as augmented reality systems that make the trip to the supermarket easier. PÚBLICO has compiled a list of news:
See more with a mobile phone
Google is working on augmented reality platform that allows users to get more information about the world around them from their mobile phone. For example, by pointing a cell phone camera at a shelf of cereal packages in a supermarket, it would be possible to obtain information about allergens and nutrition for different products without having to read any labels. There is no release date for these tools yet.
fuel saving
Google will expand its “green” flights to Europe. Since October in Canada and the USA, it is possible to ask for directions to a place that follows the most fuel-efficient route. This feature has already saved half a million metric tons of CO2 emissions (the Google team says it’s equivalent to taking of the ways 100,000 cars).
The option will be available in the settings of the Google Maps app. Click on the three dots in the upper right corner and choose the most fuel-efficient Route Option.
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Explore the surroundings
Google is expanding its search engine to help small businesses when searching using word and image combinations. For example, when searching for pictures of shoes or clothes, you can add the tag “beside me“(Near Me) to receive information about stores selling the product in the user’s vicinity.
Function It will be released at the end of the year in opinion polls conducted in English.
Translate from scratch
Google’s AI systems can already translate languages and dialects from scratch, without any data to train. This Wednesday, the North American giant added 24 new languages and dialects to its language a program Translation (in total, 133 languages and dialects are dominated by technology).
Unlike the most popular languages, which have huge databases of texts translated into several languages, the algorithms had no information about the most recent set that includes many African and South American languages. The way the Google team calls it Translate without a shot (Translating from the start), shows that Google needs fewer and fewer examples to figure out how to complete the task. Neural networks (artificial intelligence systems inspired by the human brain) learn on their own.
This is proof that translation can be done without any resources. So far we have had to show the neural network hundreds of examples of translations. It was a drawback because this type of content doesn’t exist for all languages,” explains Isaac Caswell, an engineer at Google. “It sounds like magic, but we have a system that has already learned to translate several languages. It’s a kind of multilingualism and the knowledge base about languages is enough to decode new texts in languages he doesn’t know.”
The group of 24 languages includes the languages spoken by 300 million people around the world, namely:
- Speedy: It is spoken by 14 million people in South Africa
- Oromo: It is used by 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya
- Quechua: It is used by 10 million people in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador
Augmented Reality API
Google announced that it will provide many tools to help programmers who are creative apps To develop new tools with augmented reality (a technology in which digital images are superimposed on images of the physical world). One of the premise is to facilitate the creation of tools to help users apps Shared bicycles and scooters to park vehicles at the end of the trip; Another is the creation of video games in which mythical creatures appear in front of important landmarks.