google io At Google I/O this week, the Chocolate Factory argued for its AI supremacy, making the case with benchmark-topping machine learning models, developer tools, and a few promising products.
How it might recoup the billions it is spending to build out AI infrastructure was left to the imagination.
There were a few glimmers of brilliance. Real-time language translation in Google Meet is great. It’s a vision of the Star Trek future many of us hope for, as opposed to the Torment Nexus nihilism fueled by social media rage-bait and surveillance capitalism.
Google Beam, a 3D conferencing system, at least has novelty appeal. Google pitches it as “a new platform designed to create more meaningful…