Google's Quirky New Dreambeans AI Turns Real Life Into Cartoons

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Hot off last month's Google I/O event, Google Labs has a new experiment it wants users to try, and it's a pretty interesting departure from how many normally think about AI assistants. It's called Dreambeans, and despite the name, the idea is fairly straightforward. Instead of endlessly scrolling someone else's life feed, a user will get a small, curated set of daily story cards drawn from their own life, like a storyboard for their own movie.

According to Dreambeans product lead Gozde Oznur, the stories are designed as lifestyle suggestions covering "places to visit, topics to explore, things to try, upcoming trips, events that you should be aware of." Google hopes users will think of it less like a social media timeline and more like a morning briefing that actually knows the individual user.

Google explains the whimsical name by describing how the system works behind the scenes. It...

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