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Amanda Caswell

Forget ChatGPT — Google says AI’s real future may be traffic lights, cancer scans and wildfire alerts

Google AI logo on phone.

By now we've seen how AI performs for every day productivity from writing emails and creating images to fully automated workflows. But recently, Google published insights signaling that the real AI breakthroughs may happen somewhere far beyond our devices.

According to the quietly published societal impact page, the company sees AI’s biggest future role not as a chatbot, but as invisible infrastructure. In other words, AI could help change your daily life with better traffic flow, spotting diseases earlier and warning communities before wildfires spread.

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