Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
Google Labs has introduced Dreambeans, a new AI app designed to animate users' lives by generating personalized stories. The app curates lifestyle suggestions based on data from various Google services, providing users with a limited number of daily stories. Dreambeans aims to inspire users while also addressing concerns about phone addiction and privacy.
- ▪Dreambeans uses data from Google services to create personalized AI-illustrated stories.
- ▪The app limits users to 10 to 14 stories per day to combat doomscrolling.
- ▪Users have control over their data and can delete it or choose which Google services to connect.
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Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it? Gozde Oznur, the product lead behind the new app, told TechCrunch that the idea is to use data culled from across your various Google services to generate a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories.” These stories come in a variety of different shapes and forms, although — in general — they seem to be lifestyle suggestions. Oznur describes as “places to visit, topics to explore, things to try, upcoming trips, events that you should be aware of.” Dreambeans generates these ideas based on a user’s Google data.
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