Portraits by Google Labs lets you talk to AI versions of real experts. Starting with 'Radical Candor' author Kim Scott, it offers AI coaching based on her knowledge & voice. An early experiment.
It's interesting to see how AI is evolving. While the raw capabilities and voice quality of AI are advancing incredibly fast, real-world value often comes down to something more fundamental: trust. We might believe an AI is capable, but we tend to place our trust in the experience and authority of proven human experts.
A new experiment from Google Labs called Portraits builds on this exact concept. Instead of a generic AI, it offers conversational AI representations of trusted experts, built in partnership with them. It’s launching with a Portrait of Kim Scott, the author of "Radical Candor," to provide AI coaching based directly on her work and in her voice.
So, you're not just getting an answer from a capable model, you're getting guidance grounded in the specific expertise and content of a person you already trust. It's a fascinating approach to bridging AI capability with human authority, and a very important direction for making AI assistants genuinely more useful and trusted.
