Google held its annual I/O developer occasion this week. The corporate gathered software program builders, enterprise companions, and folk from the know-how press at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, simply down the street from Google company headquarters for a two-hour presentation. There have been Android bulletins, there have been chatbot bulletins. Any person even blasted rainbow-colored robes into the gang utilizing a T-shirt cannon. However many of the discuss at I/O centered round synthetic intelligence. Almost the whole lot Google confirmed off on the occasion was enhanced ultimately by the corporate’s Gemini AI mannequin. And a number of the most surprising bulletins got here within the realm of AI-powered search, an space the place Google is poised to upend everybody’s expectations about learn how to discover issues on the web—for higher or for worse.
This week, WIRED senior author Paresh Dave joins us to unpack the whole lot Google introduced at I/O, and to assist us perceive how search engines like google will evolve for the AI period.
Present Notes
Learn our roundup of the whole lot Google introduced at I/O 2024. Lauren wrote concerning the finish of search as we all know it. Will Knight acquired a demo of Mission Astra, Google’s visible chatbot. Julian Chokkattu tells us about all the brand new options coming to Android telephones, Put on OS watches, and Google TVs.
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