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Google continues to be the top headline maker in the AI landscape across the world after the release of the Gemini AI model. In the latest update, Google staff has reportedly proposed to use AI to create a 'bird's-eye' view of the lives of people using their smartphone data, including photos and searches, reported CNBC.

According to the report, "Project Ellmann" (named after American literary critic and biographer Richard David Ellmann) plans to use large language models like Gemini to utilise search results, discover patterns in a user's gallery, craft a chatbot and "answer previously impossible questions". The project aims to be "Your Life Story Teller", according to a presentation copy accessed by the news outlet.

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While unclear at the moment, the company might consider executing the feature inside Google Photos, with a database of over four trillion images and videos and one billion+ users. The update comes a few days after the announcement of Gemini, the multimodal model of Google.

Gemini is Google's 'largest and most capable AI model' to date. (Image:Google)

The project may extract context from biographies, and photos in a deeper manner rather than just "pixels with labels and metadata", the presentation noted. It aims to segregate based on phases in life such as college years, years as a parent and other life events.

"We trawl through your photos, looking at their tags and locations to identify a meaningful moment. When we step back and understand your life in its entirety, your overarching story becomes clear," a slide stated, according to CNBC. It can understand moments like a user's transition in life as a parent and if they have only one child.

Other notable instances shared in the report are of a reunion once the LLM discovers multiple unknown faces in a frame after a long time. Ellmann chat was described as: "Imagine opening ChatGPT but it already knows everything about your life. What would you ask it?"

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It can deliver answers to queries like "Do I have a pet?", details about when a family member last visited you, your eating habits, products you may buy in the future based on the stored screengrabs, travel plans and more, according to the report. The chat could also cite a user's favourite websites and apps.

"This was an early internal exploration and, as always, should we decide to roll out new features, we would take the time needed to ensure they were helpful to people, and designed to protect users’ privacy and safety as our top priority," a Google spokesperson told the news outlet.