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

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.

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.”

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.