Google has been an AI company since before the ChatGPT era reinvented the term “AI” to simply refer to large language models (LLMs). The clever Android and Google features you loved a decade ago? Those were machine learning, which preceded the tools we have today. After OpenAI jumped the gun with the release of ChatGPT, the smash hit popularity of that product led to Google playing a huge game of catch-up because, well, Pandora’s Box was open. AI this, AI that, it’s been everywhere, and often not in the ways we really wanted it.
I’m personally still in favor of AI not being in products like Google Search, for example, but it’s clear this stuff is here to stay. That said, Google has finally made it to the good part, where AI actually becomes objectively useful and fulfills some of those lofty promises we’ve been hearing for the past few years. The first recent example of this is Google Home.
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