ever live demo of landa from stage i'm going to tap start and this is a project
i've been thinking a lot about lately google had some really interesting updates in there
google i o 2022 including the likes of ar glasses which allows you to see
live translations as you're speaking to someone in a foreign language which is crazy but the
thing that excited me the most was something called lambda2 and i wanted to dive into it
in today's video what it is how it works and how it could be useful for the future of productivity
so if you're new here my name is francesco i'm the host of keep productive and we're going to
be diving into lots of different productivity news software and tutorials so if you fancy joining the
channel and subscribing you can find the link in description so google's done a lot of crazy
stuff over the last few years and in particular last year they introduced something called lambda
and to be honest i moved past it didn't really see the necessary benefits for productivity obviously
you see some aspects of it but this second version released at the event very recently has a lot
of productivity elements of it they introduced some really interesting elements of it like the
imagine it technology where you start having a conversation with this ai and it allows you to
imagine things so for example you ask it what's it like to live at the bottom of the ocean and it
will use all of its training data and obviously google technologies to begin to shape um that
imagination for you which is really crazy um but that didn't really interest me the thing that
interested me in lambda 2 was list it essentially listed takes a complex goal or complex tasks and
breaks it down into bite chunks that are more actionable and that allow you to sort of get stuff
done in terms of what you actually need to do with this and what was interesting is they demonstrated
this in something called their ai test kitchen which is an application that googlers have been
using to really test the limits of lambda and how it works essentially providing feedback on whether
it's offensive or whether it's valuable but what they did in the demonstration is actually take for
example how to plant vegetables in their garden i'll send this off to lambda and there it is on
the fly it's come up with these different steps and broken it down into this list of subtasks
one of the other things lambda does is not just break down list and it would break that down a
complex thing like that into a bunch of subtasks now obviously very early days nothing like okay
go and do this for me but that's what was quite interesting is lambda 2 combined with duplex a
technology that google released in 2018 would be a really interesting mix and let me explain
why that's in a productivity context so duplex would essentially have conversations and book
reservations for you with you not even being in the picture it would call up an organization like
your local hairdressers and book the reservation all over the phone without any issues apparently
and basically imagine taking that technology where it goes out and does something for you
um maybe has a conversation with somebody or maybe has a conversation with another ai and combine it
with lambda 2 is a good example of that i'm typing an email to somebody and i say let's
all right cheers that's perfect thank you see you in a bit bye
see duplex could have had a conversation with him imagine if duplex was able to interact and be able
to maybe like get the task done be able to talk to another business or maybe even another businesses
ai technology and lambda2 was able to break down complex projects or tasks in an email conversation
i was having and you would be able to press buttons and just say duplex you go over here
and do that and lambda you break down the task a little bit further so that we can do that imagine
being able to use these two technologies at once to break down 10 to 15 minute types of tasks and
delegate them to artificial intelligence it would be really interesting to see how this would work
and how in practical sense it could be useful for a team or maybe even um somebody that's working
on their own so google introduced definitely some really interesting new technologies with lambda 2
and i'm keeping an eye on whether this goes any further next year in particular with the next
io event or whether it's something that sort of takes a back seat duplex has taken a back seat
over the last few years although it definitely has still been available for businesses and to use
but not in a commercialized mainstream sense so as you can imagine lambda still early days
with it even though it's in the second version if you're new here it'd be great to have you
because we do dive into more google microsoft and apple technologies updates but obviously
loads of third-party productivity apps that i'm sure you'll enjoy anyway folks thank you so much
for stopping by i hope you enjoyed this feature and let's dive into more videos very soon cheerio
you