AI overshadowed Pixel at the Pixel event
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Google’s Tuesday event was ostensibly about Pixel hardware. Really, it was about AI.
Google’s Rick Osterloh made that clear from the moment he walked onstage, where his initial remarks focused a lot more on Google’s artificial intelligence efforts than devices:
A few months ago at Google I/O, we shared a broad range of breakthroughs to make AI more helpful for everyone. We’re obsessed with the idea that AI can make life easier and more productive for people. It can help us learn. It can help us express ourselves. And it can help us be more creative. The most important place to get this right is in the devices we carry with us every day. So we’re going to share Google’s progress in bringing cutting-edge AI to mobile in a way that benefits…