Crowd at Google I/O is doing the man wave. There's like 80 copies of the same dude visible just from the one camera angle. The simulators are cutting costs.
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Cool video now on accessibility. There are so many amazing things we could do with computer interfaces if we had credible guarantees against surveillance and permanent tracking.
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"All of these AI improvements will be rolling out in a new Android phone that, for the first time, offers its users strong security by default." Lol jk
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"Google assistant needs to understand the social dynamics of conversation." This in the context of 'Continued Conversation', a feature that will keep your home surveillance device listening without the 'ok google' prompt.
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Utterly creepy segment now on how Google always-on home microphones are training children to say 'please'.
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"A new visual canvas for Google Assistant" which is making the dream of our fathers—yelling at the television—an interactive reality
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Quick demo of "what the morning commute is like with Google Maps" inadvertently brings up a gridlocked Route 101, thanks in large part to tech companies like Google that have brought hundreds of thousands of jobs to the region without adding housing
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I love Google food demos, since they are so transparently targeted at Google employees who never grew up. My mom doesn't need to see a video of how to cut an onion, or Starbucks delivery to rural Maine.
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I'm just waiting for them to introduce the always-on Google home camera.
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"There are still situations where it is necessary to make a phone call." Crowd gasps.
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There was a tech bro talking about the social dynamics of conversation literally ten minutes ago, but now Google is demoing a robot voice that pretends to be human (including fake 'um's and 'ah's and calls small businesses to book appointments)
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Google Duplex is a phone tree that calls YOU, and turns every phone call into a Turing test. The on-stage demos all involve deceiving a real human being into thinking they're in a conversation with a person.
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Pichai: "There is one unifying theme in all of this: we are obsessed with giving users back their time." [AD PLAYS]
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Be sure to tell your five year old to binge-watch the new Google "Digital Wellbeing" site on YouTube
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Google pledging to help journalism is like the Mafia offering to clean up the bottom of the East River.
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"Really excited to announce the new Google News. Here's Adolf to tell you more"
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"I didn't tell the Google News app that I follow politics, love to bike, or live in the Bay Area, because Google specializes in comprehensive surveillance"
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We're also excited to announce a whole new way to read news online. We're bringing back Google Reader! [crowd goes nuts] Lol jk
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Full Coverage is a useful news contextualization feature that will algorithmically link breaking stories to Breitbart
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Google attempting to automate journalism with AI would be funny if it wasn't so incredibly damaging.
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We're rolling out this complete redesign of news in 127 countries simultaneously because what could go wrong
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Now Android feature: on-device machine learning can learn about how to help you while keeping your data private to every app you've installed on your phone
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Adaptive Brightness is a revolutionary new feature that drops Googlers' IQ by 40 points when thinking about social responsibility
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"Slices" is a new OS feature that seems to cut across privacy boundaries in apps
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"You'll find the new Android UI on any Android device that has software updates." It's like the Willy Wonka golden ticket.
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(My apologies to Googlers exposed to my relentless bullying. Be strong.)
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