Consumers and investors are sick of AI hype, and Google knows it.
“There have been so many promises, so many ‘coming soon’s, and not enough real-world helpfulness when it comes to AI,” Google senior VP Rick Osterloh said at the “Made by Google” event that unveiled new Pixel phones in Mountain View Tuesday. “Which is why today, we’re getting real … we’re going to answer the biggest question people have about AI, what can AI do for me?”
OK, so did Google live up to that promise? When you strip the keynote of all the bells and whistles — the celebrity appearances, the jargon about “Tensor Processing Units,” the Pixel phone tech specs, the visions of what Gemini might be able to do in the long run — what was new about the Android experience here? And does any of it qualify as a must-have killer app?
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