As if using ChatGPT for college essays wasnât enough, students are now getting a Gemini tool to help with their Math and Physics homework, too. Google is utilizing its Circle to Search gesture, which was received quite well, to introduce a new feature.
With this update, youâll be able to simply circle the part youâre stuck on and then use a long-press shortcut to find a step-by-step solution to your homework questions. Google sounds proud about the fact that theyâre not just giving you the answer, but also all the working for it. All you have to do to use the feature is opt-in for help with word problems from the Search Labs menu.
According to Googleâs blog, itâs using its LearnLM tech to make this happen, which is apparently its ânew family of models fine-tuned for learning.â The new feature is Android only for now and is available on 100 million devices today. Google says that number will double by the end of this year. The Alphabet company also adds that it will soon extend its feature to include reading and analyzing graphs, symbolic formulas, and diagrams as well.
If you ask me, I donât have a good feeling about this feature. Iâm well aware of how much Iâm sounding like a Boomer now, but Iâm worried that students are going to stop using their brains if advancements like these continue to happen. I was in college when ChatGPT came out and witnessed how students frequently turned to it for plagiarism. Thankfully, we now have tools to detect ChatGPT-generated content, and Iâm guessing something like that will eventually come out for Gemini content, too.
We will be covering all of Googleâs big announcements during I/O this week. However, it seems one thing that wonât be announced at this yearâs I/O is any new hardware.
