Google’s Gemini: AI Reading Support for Students

MetaversePlanet June 25, 2024Last Updated: October 22, 2024

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Google is activating the artificial intelligence Gemini for teenagers with school accounts. The company’s AI-powered reading support tool will also be available to students.

Previously, Google offered Gemini to teens using their personal accounts, but they couldn’t access the chatbot with their education accounts. Google has announced that Gemini will be available to teens through school-issued accounts “in the coming months.”

It will be available in English to young people with school accounts in more than 100 countries

Google says administrators can choose to enable Gemini on these accounts. The service will also have additional data protections when used on school accounts. Specifically, Google has promised that data generated from school accounts will not be reviewed by anyone, used to train AI models, or shared with other users and institutions.

This isn’t the search company’s only notable announcement related to schools. Google also announced that it will launch the co-reading feature in Classroom worldwide. This feature will allow students to improve their reading skills and receive “real-time support.” It will be available in English for now.

The company also highlighted several security features for administrators. These include multi-party approval (requiring multiple administrators to make sensitive changes), the ability to prevent students from initiating direct messages, and the ability to proactively block compromised devices.

Additionally, Google announced several accessibility features for Chromebooks and the Chrome browser. These include the ability to read aloud in Chrome’s reading mode, extracting text from PDFs in Chrome for screen reading, and the firm’s Project Gameface feature, which is expected to launch later this year.