Three engineers at Google recently came up with a futuristic way to help people who are stumbling during a video call presentation. They propose that if an algorithm detects that a speaker's pulse increases or their “hmm'' becomes longer, a generative AI bot that mimics that voice could simply take over. Masu. Its cutting-edge ideas were not published at large corporate events or in academic journals. Instead, this article was published in his 1,500-word post on a little-known free website called TDCommons.org, which Google secretly owned and funded for his nine years. I did. Wired: Google had never talked to the media about its website until last year when WIRED received a link to the idea on TDCommons and became interested. Scroll through TDCommons to read Google's latest ideas for tweaking smart home gadgets to improve your sleep, protecting the privacy of your mobile search results, and using AI to summarize your personal activity from your photo archives can. And Google isn't the only one submitted. About 150 organizations, including HP, Cisco, and Visa, also have their inventions listed on his website.
This website is home to ideas that seem potentially valuable, but not worth spending tens of thousands of dollars to patent. By disclosing technical details and establishing “prior art,” Google and other companies can prevent other companies from filing patents on similar concepts and avoid future disputes. Google gives its employees a $1,000 bonus for each invention they post on TDCommons, one-tenth of what it gives patent applicants, but an instantly shareable way to gloat about their secret work. A link is also provided.