Google is rolling out version 2.0 of its Gemini AI model today for the web. But the real news is what Google calls “Deep Research,” which attempts to mimic how actual humans research a subject and develop a report on it.
It’s yet another tool that students have available to them, and one that probably will scare teachers who worry about AI being used for cheating even more.
Google AI-powered search worried content creators because it slurped up content that others had created and passed it off as its own work, with some minimal footnotes to point back at the original authors. Deep Research takes this to another level.
Deep Research takes a prompt and first crafts a research plan, according to Google. Instead of immediately setting out to craft a report, it will first ask you to approve the general outline of the plan. Only then will it set out to actually craft the report, properly footnoted. An …