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PC Gamer
Jess Kinghorn

'What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model': Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor

A screenshot of Google DeepMind's Gemini AI cursor demo. The user is prompting the AI to put a sunhat on a snow man.

I don't doubt there's some worthwhile application of at least one technology lumped under the monolithic 'AI' banner. Unfortunately, big tech's major players seem preoccupied with reinventing the wheel and introducing an unnecessary agentic twist. Case in point, Google DeepMind's latest experimental demo attempts to give your humble mouse cursor an AI enhancement.

"The mouse cursor is something that has been forgotten," argues Adrien Baranes, a staff researcher prototyping Human-AI Interactions at Google DeepMind, "What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model, like Gemini, trying to interpret whatever we are saying, like another person would."

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