They have always followed the iPhone event haven’t they? Maybe this year they think they have enough advantage to lead
tl;dr: AI + competition
Utilizing the otherwise quiet month of August gives Google a chance to show off new AI ideas on Pixel ahead of Apple’s next iPhones which, now, look to be packed with “Apple Intelligence.”
There is no way it’s going to die.
I’ve been using various “Ai” things and it’s helped me significantly with my work. (Freelance)
Just yesterday I was able to complete a 15-20 minute task in just 4 minutes.
I use it everyday and it’s enabled me to do so much of my busy work in minutes.
especially remote ai that relies on google’s servers, because it’s not even impressive anymore.
Writing it off as a fad is rather ignorant. Sure there’s a lot of hype and bullshit surrounding AI, but it already has strong use cases and earns a profit for the companies involved. It’s still the early years for the tech too, so it is reasonable to expect it to improve in the coming years, both in terms of accuracy and performance.
It’s still a fad. Sure it has some uses but most of it is hype right now and they throw AI onto everything.
I’m sitting here really hoping that models hit a plateau in capabilities soon. Continuing to get smaller/more efficient would be great, but if the capabilities of our best models would plateau for a bit and give society time to adjust to the impact I would be very happy.
