Google Launches AI Features to Help Students Study

Washington, 30 Jul (ONA) --- Google has announced a series of new features as part of an update to help students prepare for tests and deepen their academic understanding using AI Mode.

Google aims to enable students to intelligently create study guides by dragging information into the sidebar and interacting with the results through additional questions to enhance outcomes.

Features include the ability to upload images to AI mode on desktop, where users can ask questions about what's shown in the image, whether it's a math problem for homework or a plant they want to learn more about.

The company is also testing another feature, real-time camera sharing in AI mode, based on the Search Live feature, allowing users to point their phone's camera at a question they want to ask and ask it via voice, rather than simply using voice chat. This feature is initially available to users in the US who have opted into the AI Mode Labs experiment.

Google is trying to make it easier to access Lens in Chrome by displaying a new “Ask Google about this page” option when users click on the address bar in Chrome. When users select this option, the tool will let users choose what to search on the page and then generate an AI Overview directly in the browser’s sidebar. Google also plans on letting users ask additional questions about a Lens response by choosing the “AI Mode” button and continuing their search through the "Dive deeper" option.

In May, Google built AI Mode into Search in the US, which searches the web and summarizes its findings for users. It also lets users ask follow-up questions, as well as have a back-and-forth conversation with the tool.

Google launched the ability to upload images to AI Mode while still testing the feature in April; adding it to desktop could make it easier for students to get help with projects or assignments.

--- Ends/Khalid