I dream of a gadget that can do all this. Instead, when I go out to the office, I pack one or two phones, a portable battery bank, laptop, kindle, a novel product that I test, and at least one pair of ear inserts. In my backpack there is a bag full of strings and adapters. On my body I usually grow two to four wearing devices. I know that mine is the life of a “maximalist gadget”. But certainly one day the powers that will convene, and the society will decide about the next mustomie-one all-powerful device that will replace the phone.
Google seems to not think so. At least not based on what I witnessed during the last week Made by Google Event.
At the studio in Brooklyn Navy Yard Google showed four phones, a smartwatch and a few headphones. This is quite typical for the product launch, but something in this year’s updates was different. It was not just a strange format that speaks or latent anxiety associated with Gemini in every corner of each product. It was an amazing feeling that AI would not be a thing that tears in the gardens. Will strengthen them. Instead of improving the number of gadgets we wear, it can force them to multiply.
The word “vibe” is currently abused, but in this strange television studio in Brooklyn I felt a noticeable climate change in mobile computers. Especially with wearing devices. Where think art AND Online discourse Used to argue that wearing devices were dead, this category is now positioned as an avant -garde for artificial intelligence.
“The first 15 years of wearing devices were a lot:” Collect data, quantitative me “. There, Fitbit began, “explains Sandeep Waraich, running a Google product for Pixel wearing devices.” These were episodic data that quickly move to continuous insights, because the data goes so far. They go from highly general to something very personal. “
You can see where it all goes. Wearing devices generate a ton of data. It’s much more arduous than it seems that finding possible insights in a digestible manner AND It keeps people in the long run. This is a kind of task in which AI would theoretically be good – that’s why every fitness tracker and application on the market jumps into fashion.
At the same time, as Waraich describes, wearing devices are “only one device in our computer life that guarantees presence on the body.” Your phone may seem glued to your hand, but it can even be left on the table, hidden in a purse or turned off at the concert. If you want the most personalized, always available AI assistant, he must know absolutely everything you can know about you. Is there a better way to do it than to be ON You?
The problem with AI equipment is that we are at the spaghetti stage. Nobody knows what the victorious formula is, so every idea under the sun will be cast on the wall something sticks. You always have a life recorder that is allegedly your second memory. The Meta Hypothesis is that multimodal knowledgeable glasses are a Platonic perfect gate to AI. Ions Ive and Altman himself can afford very unclear about any project they are working on because All They say that it can be correct at this point.
But to hear Google says it, no one The form of the form will reign Supreme.
“Every religion you have now is probably premature,” says Rish Chandra, Vice President of Google Fitbit and Health, when I ask what Google factors are put on twins. “I have no doubt that there will be new factors of form. However, I think it is too early to convince. It is interesting that artificial intelligence moves so quickly that every point of view on equipment can change very quickly.”
“It is interesting that artificial intelligence moves so quickly that every point of view on equipment can change very quickly.”
Instead, Chandra claims that Google is bending into Spaghett -Dness of all this. Some of them are openness to experiments. To see this, just look at Android XR, its emerging platform for clever glasses. The second half is “maximizing the devices you already have”. The phone is the starting point. Smartwatch and ear inserts are natural extensions, but the full potential of AI equipment has not yet been unlocked. The hope, as Waraich says, is that, experimenting and maximizing, they end with a winning combination that has not yet been seen.
“The future will be a very diverse set of accessories that people can choose this job for them, which is personalized for them, in their environment and what they care about,” explains Chandra. “Our task is to make everything work [together] So it doesn’t matter. “
Waraich agrees. Google, says, talks about these general changes in accordance with the vision of the calculation of the environment, the world in which your devices disappear in the background, autonomously and proactively responding to all needs. (For example, when you enter the room, your AI lightweight bulbs can switch to the mellower setting, because they can talk to the phone on which you just wrote to a friend to say that you have migraine.) But the environment computers will never be unlocked if there is only one almighty gadget. It will also not work if these gadgets do not “speak” in a common language. So why should Google not throw Gemini as a glue holding all this? If Gemini becomes . Necessary artificial intelligence, and above all, is baked in Google Hardware-may really make people stop taking care of green bubbles.
Part of this change takes place because the smartphone is almost 20 years elderly. A gadget that once inspired admiration, these phones resemble Toyota Camry more than Ferrari. Hans Vestberg, general director of Verizon, said last year that “exciting times are over” And that many people are holding phones for three years or longer. These numbers fluctuate depending on the region and the demographic group, but Large Tech publicly admitted it People just don’t modernize their phones as often as they used to be.
Pushing from this lens in the direction of AI equipment begins to make sense. He just feels beyond synchronization with what people tell me they want. Google managers tell me that the goal of Gemini (and generally AI) is to make life easier for people to return their time. This is a noble task that seemingly equalizes with exhaustion that people feel from the always included state-of-the-art life. But even if I see Google’s vision, even if I really see the value in its parts – it is arduous to even out how to add more gadgets with more Ai concerns this existential fatigue.
Nevertheless, it is a plant that Google will turn on. That is why Pixel 10 and Pixel Watch 4 feel like such opinions in the landscape of iterative updates. I would claim that this is why we see how knowledgeable rings gain adhesion and why the finish line sees hardware success thanks to knowledgeable glasses after years, so as not to convince people to care for Metaverse. Everyone is looking for the next round in history and for now coincides with AI devices. Many, many of them.
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