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By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible | MIT Technology Review

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Its annual I/O showcase demonstrates that the frontier is no longer about AI models’ capabilities. It’s about turning them into slick products.

By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered. The company’s annual showcase of next-gen products, which kicked off yesterday, has all of the pomp and pizzazz, the sizzle reels and celebrity walk-ons, that you’d expect from a multimillion-dollar marketing event. But it also shows us just how fast this still experimental technology is being subsumed into a lineup designed to sell phones and subscription tiers. Never before have I seen this thing we call artif

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