The Pixel Phone app might soon let you respond to calls with AI messages

• An AI upgrade for Call Screen has been spotted
• It's apt to beryllium powered by Gemini Nano AI
• More precocious AI responses could beryllium offered

If you've sewage 1 of nan best Pixel phones successful your pocket, past you tin usage nan Call Screen characteristic to person a Google bot reply incoming calls and inquire what nan telephone is astir – and it looks for illustration much AI trickery is astir to beryllium added too.

The squad astatine 9to5Google did immoderate digging into nan Phone app for Pixels, and recovered codification hinting that precocious AI replies would beryllium disposable successful nan future. These would astir apt beryllium powered by Google's Gemini AI chatbot.

You already get a broad acquisition from Call Screen arsenic it useful today: nan caller hears a spoken connection asking them to authorities their business, and you get a matter transcript of what they've said. You tin past subordinate nan call, aliases nonstop immoderate basal responses – for illustration "call maine back" aliases "thank you" – if you're not disposable to talk.

This caller upgrade would make those responses much varied and complex, powered by a ample connection model. It seems that you would still get nan action to take from a action of responses connected nan screen, alternatively than starting from scratch.

Updates ahoy

Call Screen was only conscionable updated last month, pinch much context-aware speedy replies – ones that aren't conscionable generic responses (so if nan telephone is astir an appointment, you mightiness spot "confirm" aliases "cancel" options, for example).

It's not clear precisely really nan much elaborate responses mightiness work, arsenic nan 9to5Google squad wasn't capable to excavation retired immoderate screenshots aliases get nan characteristic turned on, but nan caller answers will astir most apt beryllium on akin lines to a emblematic Gemini AI chatbot response.

Another bunch of Pixel updates – which Google calls Pixel Drops – should beryllium announced very soon, though this peculiar caller characteristic mightiness not beryllium included. Google whitethorn request much clip to refine nan measurement it works, and it's worthy noting that nan hidden codification already includes nan modular disclaimer astir nan unreliability of AI responses.

If nan characteristic does request on-board AI processing from nan Gemini Nano model, this will only activity connected nan Pixel 8 Pro and nan Pixel 9 phones (Gemini Nano is besides connected nan Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a, though it's not presently enabled).

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