Google Maps迎来重大更新，借助AI帮助用户发现新去处。用户可通过沉浸式视图探索更多地点，依据描述性查询搜索特定地点。Google将利用Gemini AI模型提供匹配描述的‘灵感集合’，还能查看AI生成的用户评论摘要并提问。此外，该功能本周在美国的安卓和iOS系统上推出，Immersive View将扩展到150个城市，导航等功能也有所增强。

🎈Google Maps新增功能，用户可通过沉浸式视图探索更多地点，并能依据如‘晚上和朋友一起做的事’这样的描述性查询搜索特定地点，Google会利用Gemini AI模型提供相应的‘灵感集合’。

💬用户点击地点后，能看到AI生成的用户评论摘要，还可提问，Google Maps会利用Gemini根据评论提供AI生成的回答，并展示所用评论。此功能本周在美国的安卓和iOS系统上推出。

🌆Google还将Immersive View扩展到150个城市，该功能结合街景和卫星图像提供地点的空中视图及街道级探索能力，同时部分城市的导航功能增强，Google旗下的Waze应用也增加了语音报告道路事件的功能。

Google Maps is getting a big update that’s supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI. Starting this week, you’ll be able to explore more locations with Immersive View and search for specific spots based on a descriptive query like “things to do with friends at night.”

Google will then use its Gemini AI model to come up with “inspirational collections” matching that description. For late-night options, Google Maps might pull up locations categorized as “speakeasies” or places with “live music.” Meanwhile, regular search results remain below these collections.

But that’s not the extent of the AI features Google is adding to Maps. Once you tap on a location, you’ll see AI-generated summaries of user reviews, along with a prompt to “Ask Maps about this place.” Here, you can enter a question, and Maps will use Gemini to provide an AI-generated answer based on what it’s gathered from reviews.

During a press briefing, Google Maps head Miriam Daniel demonstrated how this might work by selecting a restaurant and entering, “Is it a quiet atmosphere?” Google Maps then returned an answer saying the location “has a lively atmosphere and a cozy feel.” Beneath the response, you’ll see the reviews Gemini used to inform its answer. These features are rolling out on Android and iOS this week in the US, building upon the AI integration Google began experimenting with earlier this year.

“We wanted to make sure that anything we show in this experience is fresh and factual,” Daniel said. “There are 100 million updates happening every day, and we’re able to pull from that refreshed fresh information and ground the results from Gemini... making sure that the results show real places on the map.”

Google is also expanding Immersive View to 150 cities. This feature, first rolled out in 2022, combines Street View and satellite images to provide an aerial view of a location, while also offering the ability to explore a city at street level. Some other updates include enhanced navigation that will show more details on the map when driving in select cities and updates to its Waze-like destination guidance features it previewed in July. Speaking of Waze, the Google-owned app is also adding the ability to report incidents on the road with your voice.