AI. AI? AI! AI… A. I. This has been per week crammed with AI bulletins from a number of the greatest and most essential corporations in tech, all of whom appear completely satisfied that we’re due for a revolution in digital assistants. If Silicon Valley will get its means, you may by no means have to put in writing an electronic mail, a line of code, or a joke ever once more. All you’ll do is ask your all-knowing, ultra-helpful, perhaps barely too flirty digital assistant, and it’ll get the whole lot carried out for you.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we focus on all of the AI assistant stuff OpenAI introduced at its Spring Replace occasion and the very related stuff Google introduced at its I/O developer convention the subsequent day. For the reason that early days of Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa, the tech trade has been transferring towards the identical objective. Are flirty AI assistants actually the way forward for computing?
After that, we speak about the remainder of Google I/O, which was simply the Gemini present throughout. We attempt to make sense of the brand new AI Overviews and what they’ll do to the best way the net works. They’re going to vary issues, there’s no query about it — the one factor left to search out out is what’s on the opposite aspect.
Lastly, within the lightning spherical, we speak about laptops and emulators and self-driving automobiles and iPads and the plain methods by which the app mannequin is altering. With a bunch of developer conferences to come back, too, there may be extra change afoot.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we mentioned on this episode, listed here are a couple of hyperlinks to get you began, starting with OpenAI:
And on the whole lot else from Google I/O:
And within the lightning spherical:
