When Dart overtook Kotlin as my favorite language I still missed certain features of Kotlin. One was the incredibly powerful switch statement, called "when", that Kotlin had and being able to use that for assignment. Now that Dart 3 is out I now have the equivalent of that again :). It may be missing a couple of edge case features like "in" comparisons but I have to experiment more to determine that. Hats off Dart and Flutter Team. (Screenshot from the "What's New in Dart and Flutter" presentation from #GoogleIO#GoogleIO2023#flutter#dart#kotlin
I'm understanding that the latest version of Google Bard uses some new kind of AI model called PaLM v2. How novel is this compared to what's currently powering tools like ChatGPT? How might it compare to LLaMa-based open-source work?
I think I read recently that a lot of the innovations in the AI space in the last decade or so came out of Google in some shape or form, but other companies productized the technology first. I wonder if Google's success with Bard might be due less to the underlying LLM technology and more to the breadth of other services that Google offers.
But I also heard they have a slimmer version of the Bard model that can run on mobile, called "Gecko"? That's potentially exciting.
What a wild time for technology, even if this is all statistical guessing behind the scenes.
@Una 's video from #GoogleIO2023 is so good! Container queries, the 'has' selector, text-wrap balancing, wide-gamut color spaces, cascade layers, CSS scope styles, trigonometric functions, scroll-driven animations — the future of #css is exciting 🩵
#Google new photo editor tool seems amazing, to the point that the level of manipulation of a photo it enables can turn any photo in something completely made up, fake.
With AI we are going to live in a world of fake memories.
Like Blade Runner replicants.
Announcing PaLM 2: Builds on fundamental research and infrastructure. Highly capable of wide range of tasks. Over 25 products and features powered by PaLM 2 today.
So lightweight that it can work on mobile devices and even offline. Spans over 100 languages. Help developers collaborating around the world.
Google has reimagined its search results page thanks to #AI, powered by not only its Knowledge Graph but also its Images database and Shopping Graph. Perhaps this is compelling enough to make this appealing.
But how does this update impact SEO and organic search results? I wonder if Google will provide answers and insights to marketers and businesses who could see their traffic drop considerably.