Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s AI talk at a university commencement speech this weekend drew a chorus of boos. But if the students’ reaction was a sign of anxiety, or ambivalence, about the rapid onslaught of AI in our daily lives, the message clearly did not reach Google headquarters.
At the company’s annual developer conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Tuesday, AI was the overwhelming, and virtually sole focus, of the roughly two hours of keynote presentations delivered by executives. Google showcased a variety of new ways AI will be integrated even more deeply across its widely used family of products, from search and email to productivity software and smart glasses.
