Google Gemini is a Generative AI tool created by Google, that is available both on the web, and the app store for mobile devices. Google Gemini is an AI tool designed to be an everyday assistant. The key feature of Gemini is that it is conversational and almost feels like talking to a human. One critic after having spent 24 hours using Gemini Live said “You can ask regular digital assistants follow-up questions, but it's still not as seamless as Gemini” (Richard Priday).
Generative AI was first introduced in the 1960’s in the form of very simple Chatbots and was largely research based until the early 2000’s, where a competition was held to develop facial recognition technology (also a form of Generative AI) (Keith Foote). Google, one of the most widely used internet search engines in the world, jumped on the Generative AI development train, and officially launched Google Gemini on March 21, 2023. Their goal was to develop an AI that could be used in everyday conversation, like a personal assistant (Richard Priday).