Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

谷歌推出迄今为止命名最奇特的 AI 工具“Dreambeans”，将你的生活变成动画

Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it?

谷歌实验室（Google Labs）是这家科技巨头致力于实验性产品设计的团队，他们近日推出了一款适用于 iOS 和 Android 的全新 AI 驱动应用程序，它真的能让你的生活“动画化”。这就是 Dreambeans。为什么叫这个名字？我们稍后再说。首先，它是什么？

Gozde Oznur, the product lead behind the new app, told TechCrunch that the idea is to use data culled from across your various Google services to generate a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories.” These stories come in a variety of different shapes and forms, although — in general — they seem to be lifestyle suggestions. Oznur describes them as “places to visit, topics to explore, things to try, upcoming trips, events that you should be aware of.”

该应用的产品负责人 Gozde Oznur 向 TechCrunch 表示，其核心理念是利用从你各项谷歌服务中收集的数据，生成一份由 AI 绘制的精选“故事”列表。这些故事形式多样，但总体来看，它们似乎更像是生活方式建议。Oznur 将其描述为“值得去的地方、值得探索的话题、值得尝试的事物、即将到来的旅行以及你应该关注的活动”。

Dreambeans generates these ideas based on a user’s Google data. “With your permission, Dreambeans uses Personal Intelligence to connect information from Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search History, to curate a finite collection of daily stories designed to spark new ideas,” the company says.

Dreambeans 根据用户的谷歌数据生成这些创意。该公司表示：“在获得你许可的情况下，Dreambeans 会利用个人智能（Personal Intelligence）连接来自 Gmail、日历、相册、YouTube 和搜索历史等谷歌应用的信息，从而策划出一系列有限的每日故事，旨在激发新的灵感。”

So for instance, some stories may be geographical recommendations — like suggesting a new coffee shop near where the user lives that they might be interested in. Or, as is the case in this marketing video, if you’re getting a new dog and that event has been marked in your Google Calendar, Dreambeans might deliver some insights about what it’s like to live with a new puppy. Still other stories may simply be news articles curated from the web, based on a user’s past interests.

例如，有些故事可能是地理位置推荐——比如推荐用户居住地附近他们可能感兴趣的新咖啡店。或者，正如其营销视频中所展示的那样，如果你即将领养一只新狗，并且该事件已标记在你的谷歌日历中，Dreambeans 可能会为你提供一些关于如何与新幼犬相处的见解。还有一些故事可能仅仅是基于用户过往兴趣从网络上精选的新闻文章。

Oznur said the app has also been built as a doomscrolling antidote, in that it only provides users with a limited number of stories per day — typically 10 to 14. The idea is to get a few inspirational ideas and then go out and live your life, she said. A lot of companies are currently trying to court the user that is sick of phone addiction. I recently reviewed a startup, Bond, which also uses AI to auto-generate lifestyle suggestions for the user.

Oznur 表示，这款应用也被设计为“防沉迷”工具，因为它每天只向用户提供有限数量的故事——通常为 10 到 14 条。她说，其初衷是让你获得一些灵感后，就放下手机去过自己的生活。目前许多公司都在试图吸引那些厌倦了手机成瘾的用户。我最近评测了一家名为 Bond 的初创公司，它也利用 AI 为用户自动生成生活方式建议。

What about privacy protections? According to Oznur, they are pretty solid. The only person with access to the app’s stories is the user, she said. Users can also delete their data whenever they want, and can choose which Google services they want to connect to the tool.

隐私保护方面如何？据 Oznur 称，保护措施非常稳固。她说，唯一能访问这些应用故事的人就是用户本人。用户还可以随时删除数据，并能选择希望将哪些谷歌服务连接到该工具。

Finally, where did the name “Dreambeans” come from? The idea for the name was generated, in part, by the way the system works while you are asleep, she said. “The dream part is literal, because while you sleep, the app is working through everything across your connected apps, because, as you can imagine, it’s a lot of data that it is distilling,” Oznur said. “The beans part is about how you kind of start your day with a freshly brewed cup of coffee. It has processed everything overnight and hands you a concentrated drop of inspiration in the morning.”

最后，“Dreambeans”这个名字是怎么来的？她说，这个名字的灵感部分源于系统在你睡觉时的工作方式。“‘Dream’（梦）部分是字面意思，因为当你睡觉时，应用正在处理你所有已连接应用中的信息，正如你所能想象的，它需要提炼的数据量非常大，”Oznur 说道。“‘Beans’（豆）部分则寓意你如何以一杯现煮咖啡开启新的一天。它在夜间处理完所有信息，并在清晨为你奉上一杯浓缩的灵感。”

Dreambeans is currently only available for eligible U.S.-based Google AI Ultra subscribers on Android and iOS. However, there is also a waitlist that is available to users with a personal Google account.

Dreambeans 目前仅向美国符合条件的 Google AI Ultra 订阅用户开放（Android 和 iOS 端）。不过，拥有个人谷歌账户的用户也可以加入候补名单。