Google I/O presented a modest vision of the future, offering subtle changes to existing products; executives said “help”, “helping”, or “helpful” over 50 times
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times : Tweets: @stevesi , @micahzenko , @daiwaka , and @raywongy Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Google Offers a More Modest Vision of Future https://www.nytimes.com/... “The biggest applause came from a new Google Docs feature in which the company's artificial-intelligence algorithms automatically summarize a long document into a single paragraph.” In news from Office 97 (!) https://twitter.com/... Micah Zenko / @micahzenko : Bad trend for essay writers: “biggest applause came from a new Google Docs feature in which the company's artificial-intelligence algorithms automatically summarize a long document into a single paragraph.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : Where are the moonshots? A more modest Google talks about “helpful” AI. https://www.nytimes.com/... Ray Wong / @raywongy : I think the author was too busy counting “help” in the keynote and missed how to connect the dots Google's most powerful features are the ones that are so seemingly boring that they are virtually invisible when you use them like language models https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Google Offers a More Modest Vision of Future https://www.nytimes.com/... “The biggest applause came from a new Google Docs feature in which the company's artificial-intelligence algorithms automatically summarize a long document into a single paragraph.” In news from Office 97 (!…
I think the author was too busy counting “help” in the keynote and missed how to connect the dots Google's most powerful features are the ones that are so seemingly boring that they are virtually invisible when you use them like language models https://www.nytimes.com/... https:/…
Here's @pierce with a deep look at how Google is restructuring how it works to focus and built an ambient computing ecosystem. Biggest change: the Pixel team is now talking to the Android team directly. https://t.co/nXi8F0FBH2 https://t.co/QXlIE8DR3O
“Google was becoming a warehouse full of cool stuff rather than an ecosystem.” Nice in-depth look at the road to I/O this year from @pierce https://www.theverge.com/...
I wrote a big story about ambient computing, Google's attempt to build the One True Computer, and why Google's both the best and worst company to pull it off https://www.theverge.com/...
“Google I/O feels unusually... coherent this year. Google is trying — harder than I can remember — to build products that not only work well but work well together.” Pixel by Pixel: How Google is Trying to Focus and Ship the Future https://www.theverge.com/... /by @pierce for @Ve…