Google’s building an AI-powered notebook tool called Project Tailwind, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference. The goal, Google says, is to take a user’s freeform notes and automatically organize and summarize them.
To use Tailwind — which is available through Labs, Google’s refreshed hub for experimental products — users pick files from Google Drive. Tailwind then creates a private AI model with expertise in that information, along with a personalized interface designed to help sift through the notes and docs.
The Verge’s James Vincent points out that it’s not a new idea. Note-taking app Notion recently launched an AI component to automatically write blog posts, job descriptions and more in a user’s style. Elsewhere, the open source community is training leaked language models on the contents of their Google Drive.
But Tailwind also serves as a demo for PaLM 2, the successor to Google’s ...
