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• @davidpierce@mastodon.social David Pierce on mastodon

  We're live from Google I/O!  Show hasn't even started and there's already an AI-generated duck with lips happening, this is going to be a time y'all https://www.theverge.com/...

• @verge @verge on x

  Pretty sure Google is focusing on AI at this year's I/O. #GoogleIO https://twitter.com/...

• @tsimonite Tom Simonite on x

  @SkyLi0n ... The last time Google made such an abrupt pivot in response to a perceived threat is probably the launch of Google+ in 2011

• @samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x

  brb traveling back in time to tell myself in college that Dan Deacon is now doing promo work for a defense contractor https://twitter.com/...

• @rachel_l_woods Rachel Woods on x

  The most interesting part of #GoogleIO so far — Google will be watermarking all AI-generated content going forward And it will remain intact, even if the content is edited https://twitter.com/...

• @mkbhd Marques Brownlee on x

  Every startup pitch deck https://twitter.com/...

• @trendulkar @trendulkar on x

  When you open LinkedIn these days. https://twitter.com/...

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  One reason why I think Google will be unable to handle the AI bullshit tsunami it's going to help create with Bard: It does a terrible job right now. Here, for instance, is its confident answer to a question about its own property, which is off by ~ $10 billion. https://twitter.c…

• @mspoonauer Mark Spoonauer on x

  Your move Apple WWDC. You can't beat a dancing bird with lips #GoogleIO https://twitter.com/...

• @lexnfx Alexei Oreskovic on x

  Smartphones and tablets have been rebranded as “AI powered devices ”

• @lukew Luke Wroblewski on x

  Google I/O summary: AI. coming soon.

• @techledes Connie Guglielmo on x

  Google says it's working to manage the tension between being ‘bold and responsible.’ Governments concerned too, which is why Biden hosted a few tech CEOs at White House last week, including Google's Sundar Pichai. 1/2 https://twitter.com/...

• @techledes Connie Guglielmo on x

  This also speaks to Google's market power and reach. https://twitter.com/...

• @greengart Avi Greengart on x

  #googleio keynote is trying to be everything for all audiences. Core content appears to be aimed at investors (AI! MORE AI! Ads!). Cloud/Workspace for enterprises and devs. The LLM model detail for internal Googlers and recruitment. (Oh, and consumer stuff, too.)

• @nirave @nirave on x

  Gave up when we got to Enterprise and Google Cloud. Will be back when it gets interesting! #GoogleIO

• @lutherlowe Luther Lowe on x

  See why Google spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying against the anti-self-preferencing law introduced (#AICOA) last Congress? Their #googleio response to ChatGPT relies on hardwiring their copycat products to the top of results. Same playbook they've used for 15 years.🥱

• @byjulialove Julia Love on x

  Circling overhead at Google I/O: A helicopter toting a banner calling on Google to protect the privacy of abortion seekers

• @byjulialove Julia Love on x

  Google execs have really mastered the art of scrolling onstage.

• @jenn_elias Jennifer Elias on x

  Plane flying overhead throughout this keynote with a banner that says “Protect Abortion Privacy https://www.heygoogle.info/” https://twitter.com/...

• @mkbhd Marques Brownlee on x

  40 minutes into the Google keynote: Let's talk about search (Someone's keeping an AI counter, right?)

• @rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x

  just think about this for a second: six months ago google barely talked about generative AI outside of its research labs. today @sundarpichai said the company is integrating it into all of its core products.

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  Thanks to AI this era in tech industry history will be known as “the great pivot.”

• @mkbhd Marques Brownlee on x

  The theme of so many previous Google I/O events has been “we're doing a lot of AI research, but they're all internal projects” and very quickly this one is starting off with “Now we're actually using AI to make our products better”

• @rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x

  google wants to make AI “helpful for everyone”, says sundar pichai. i can't tell if he's excited or annoyed (or both) RE the fact that google has been using AI for years and years in various ways but suddenly people are talking about it (via generative AI) as if it's brand new.

• @ow Owen Williams on x

  google's I/O conference so far be like https://twitter.com/...

• @techledes Connie Guglielmo on x

  Google Photos: 1.7 billion photos are edited each month. Sundar Pichai says using AI, you can do more w/an editing tool called Magic Editor. Pretty crazy how easily you can manipulate images - moving people & generating new background info. Available later this year. #GoogleIO

• @fredericl Frederic Lardinois on x

  If only Google actually rolled out the features it announces at #googleio right away. It's almost always “later this year.”

• @markhachman Mark Hachman on x

  Google is reinventing all of its products around AI, Sundar Pichai says at #googleio, including search.