Tech Topic 68: Google Labs Portraits AI Coaches, Summarize with Workspace AI Tools, Opal Mini-AI App Building

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This week Bob, Nina and Peggy shared three Google AI tools you can use. Bob uses Portraits to chat with an AI storytelling coach, Nina uses Gemini in Google Workspace to summarize presentations, and Peggy played with Google's new Opal vibe coding platform. 

This week's futuristic backgrounds were generated in Google Meet with the prompt "AI era shiny". 

Bob Danley: Google Labs Portraits AI Coaches

Bob has been using Google Portraits to chat with a storytelling coach based on author and teacher Matt Dicks. 

Portraits is an experiment in Google Search Labs with two "coaches". The storytelling coach is based on the writing of Matt Dicks and the candor coach is based on Kim Scott. 

The chatbot gave Bob take home assignments, asked leading questions, and helped him discover "5-second moments" that are the central core of stories. 

Bob says "the AI works flawlessly".

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Nina Trankova: Use Gemini in Google Workspace to summarize reports


Summary created by Gemini of a SEO optimization presentation statistics.
(You can use Google Lens if you need to translate)

Nina explained how she uses Gemini in Google Workspace to summarize reports and presentations. 

She shared an example of a summary created from a slide deck filled with statistics. It extracted and summarized the most important information. 

Nina says: "At the end of the slides, I asked Gemini to summarize the presentation and that's an instant. You see the slide is with a nice  image for visuals [...] it has the bullets about the most important focus points in the slide presentation."

She says Gemini is good at summaries, and you should use Gemini with your Workspace account to create summaries in Gmail, Google Slides and Google Sheets.

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Peggy Kolm: Use Opal to create shareable mini-AI apps


Gallery of sample apps created with Opal. They can be used as-is or remixed into new apps.

Peggy shared a demo of Opal, Google's experimental tool for creating shareable AI mini-apps with no coding required.

Peggy says "this is vibe coding taken to the next level", but noted that it's for "basic AI workflows" and can't be used to collect user data. 

She showcased the "Learning with YouTube" app, which takes a video link as input, and generates an educational report and interactive quiz. 

It isn't perfect though. The app's "watch the original video" button doesn't seem to work, and it's not clear how that can be debugged.

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