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Google has introduced an innovative new AI tool, Learn About, which aims to revolutionize how users learn about various topics. Launched as an experimental platform, the tool presents educational content in a more interactive and visually engaging manner than typical AI-powered assistants like Gemini or AI Overviews. Currently available to select users in the United States, the tool helps users fulfill their learning goals by offering a conversational and multimedia-driven learning experience.
The Learn About AI tool is built using Google’s LearnLM large language model (LLM), which differs from the company's other models like Gemini. LearnLM was unveiled during Google I/O and is designed with a focus on educational and research data. Its purpose is to offer responses that are grounded in reliable learning sources, enhancing the user experience by tailoring content in a way that matches the way people learn.
Unlike Google’s other AI offerings, Learn About delivers answers in a highly visual and interactive format, combining text with images, articles, and videos sourced from educational websites. This method helps users dive deeper into the material by offering additional related content. For example, when tested by The Verge, the tool displayed images and videos to support its responses, unlike Gemini, which simply quoted sources like Wikipedia. The Learn About tool also avoids the common issue of AI “hallucinations,” where AI models may provide misleading or fabricated information.
The platform also provides interactive guides that assist users in comprehending complex topics. Through these guides, users can systematically explore a series of concepts, gradually building a deeper understanding. Additionally, the tool helps users identify and avoid misconceptions that are commonly associated with certain topics, enhancing the learning process.
Despite the fact that the Learn About tool is still more of an experiment than anything else it may revolutionize the way students and people in general use social networks and the Internet to learn new things and complete their tasks. Unlike other AI tools in use today, it adopts the use of multimedia content to expand on theories while halting the use of hallucinations.
In a related event, the Google company also launched a new Utilities extension for the Gemini app. This update enables Gemini AI assistant to operate several features of the Smartphone such as alarm, timer, volume controls and camera hence adding a new and additional dimension for the Smartphone’s operating with Android systems.
Learn About is a new perspective on learning and interacting with information while having great access to the up-to-date advanced AI technology, and this tool is developed by Google.
