Over the years, Google has often been the most ambitious company pushing the envelope of what’s possible through artificial intelligence (AI) and a litany of innovative features. And now, as the tech giant approaches its annual developer conference, Google I/O, expectations are mounting. Far from being the underdog, Google intends to announce a major commitment to AI as its core message this year. In the wake of ChatGPT and OpenAI, Google has launched its own version called Gemini, has further developments planned for Search, Google Maps, and Android to move the technology agenda.
Image by Joe McKendrick/FlickrWhat: Google I/O When: Tuesday, 10AM PT / 1PM ETWhere: San Francisco, CA (and online)What will it involve? The first Google I/O event back in 2008 was an almost-complete disaster, in terms of both content and logistics. Registrations for that event were promised the day before to thousands of eager geeks, but only about 60 per cent were honoured. Tens of folded chairs were abandoned in the hallways, and even though attendees had the chance to listen to a rambling Marc Andreessen outline why it would be great to build on Google’s platforms (since replaced as keynote by the Android team), there was a substantial amount of uncertainty as to whether Google was ever going to put on another developer scale event. It was an extremely, extremely rough start. But despite Google’s initial reaction being all storm and noDOT, it’s clear looking back that I/O was given a second chance not because the skillset in charge at Mountain View was entirely inept, but because Google had so much to tell programmers about its rapidly evolving universe.
Google’s second major AI announcement, the research project Gemini, which involves a mammoth 175,000-core computer, leaps us further forward, phase-shifting into a near-term dystopia, with the tech giant signalling its desire to not just participate in but own the market for advanced AI, which, until recently, was monopolised by Microsoft’s $3 billion investment in OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. The announcement signals Google’s vision of an AI-first future in which every aspect of the world is mediated by technology.
The expansive investment made by Google in attempting to make Google Search a better experience for users (not just web publishers and developers), by passing AI through the machine, aims to make searching easier, more intuitive, more able to return the exact answer you’re looking for. Smarter search deserves our support.
And although Google Maps doesn’t actually ‘match’ you to a physical location or ‘help you get home’ in a physical sense, more and more people see Google Maps, which was good enough before, as the app of choice in real-time, online navigation, for traffic alerts and detours, and for finding the nearest bar or plumber. Google’s investments in AI are creating the possibility that Google Maps can be even more effortless for you and me.
Then again, as the foundation of billions of devices, any evolution in Android is a big deal. The emphasis that Google is putting on bringing AI to Android suggests that, as our devices get more connected, intelligent and responsive, Google genuinely imagines that we will notice the difference.
Algorithmically mediated search is as dated a concept as a search engine full stop. Google does indeed start with a business built on search, but is rapidly evolving to become something much more ambitious: an incumbent in artificial intelligence, experimenting with technologies that move towards ever more ambitious visions of what automated services might do in the future: for example, with Gemini; or in the form of AI-improved Google Maps; or through ‘applied machine learning’, or Google’s AI arm, applied to the Android operating system. Google doesn’t just adopt the future: it constructs it.
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