Android’s new generative AI can reply to your texts and design its own wallpaper

Generative AI is all the craze — and Google has discovered two new methods to place the tech within the palm of your hand.

First, it’s asserting Magic Compose, a brand new characteristic in Android’s default Messages app that’ll allow you to reply to texts with auto-suggested responses “primarily based on the content material of your messages” in order that they sound such as you, or pull a Grammarly and make them sound extra “concise” and “skilled,” and even imitate a well-known model.

Me? I can’t wait to place it to work on these pig butchering scammers who preserve pretending they’ve bought the “fallacious quantity.” The beta’s coming this summer time.

Second, as a part of a Pixel-exclusive subsequent month, Google’s including generative AI wallpaper the place “you possibly can reply recommended prompts to explain your final artistic imaginative and prescient” because of “Google’s text-to-image diffusion mannequin.” It’s like Midjourney or Steady Diffusion, however only for a single spot in your cellphone. Right here’s hoping it’s good and we will simply yank the pictures for different makes use of, too.

Google additionally says it’s bought a brand new taste of “cinematic wallpaper” that “makes use of on-device machine studying networks to remodel your favourite pictures into beautiful 3D pictures” that “come to life once you unlock or tilt your system.” (I’m quoting closely all through as a result of there’s so little further textual content within the official weblog submit that I don’t see a lot of some extent in summarizing it for you.)

None of those are significantly new concepts, however because the well-known William Gibson quote goes: “The longer term is already right here. It’s simply not evenly distributed but.” There are quite a lot of alternatives to strive generative AI, however a number of the finest are reasonably, if not closely, paywalled, and it’s good to have one other within the palm of your hand.

Extra customization will apparently be a giant theme of Android 14 when it arrives later this 12 months, by the way in which. You’ll additionally be capable to “customise your lock display screen with new shortcuts and superbly crafted clocks” and apply a monochrome (black, white, grey) coloration palette “throughout your whole cellphone expertise.” There can be emoji wallpaper, too.

It’s all a tiny glimpse of the Android ecosystem post-Android 13 — as a result of the corporate tells us it’s not planning to make a giant deal of Android 14 at this time.