Project Tailwind: Google’s AI-powered note-taking tool, how it works, availability and more – Times of India

At I/O 2023, Google showcased a number of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools it is working on. One of them was Project Tailwind – an AI notebook aimed at making note-taking smarter for consumers. According to the company, Project Tailwind will enable users to take a user’s freeform notes and automatically organise as well as summarise them using AI technology.
Availability
Google has now announced that it will soon open up the early access to waitlisted users in the US and the project will get a new name. Just like Google’s other AI tools, Tailwind is an experimental project.
Project Tailwind audience
According to Google, the AI tool is aimed at college students, writers, researchers, analysts, and lawyers reviewing a case.
How does AI note-taking works
Project Tailwind is available through Google Labs hub for experimental products. Just like Google’s new wave of AI models, Project Tailwind is also based on PaLM 2 large language model (LLM). The tool will allow users to pick files from Google Drive, and create a private AI model.
The difference between other AI models and Project Tailwind is that it will be trained on users’ own personalised data fed to the model by the user. The tool will also create a personalised interface to help users analyse notes and documents.
For example, if you are a professor who is tasked to create a study guide for students in a university from a certain book on Astronomy. In the real world, it will take some time to read the whole book. But with Project Tailwind, you can access a soft copy from Google Drive and ask the AI tool to generate a study guide highlighting key concepts.
According to Google, the tool can also suggest questions or create a reading comprehension quiz. Moreover, it can answer natural language questions about the notes and cite all sources from within the book.