Google I/O 2018: all the highlights from Google’s annual keynote | WIRED UK
Bored of writing emails? Gmail is going to do it for you. Use your phone too much? The next Android software will warn you about it. Google announced a lot at its yearly developer conference
Amid tight competition, Google has set its sights on becoming the world’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) company and its annual developer conference has proved this. At the opening of Google I/O 2018 the firm outlined its software plans for the next year and almost every aspect included AI.
CEO Sundar Pichai and a host of other top Google executives revealed where the company’s focus lies during I/O’s keynote. From the event at its Mountain View headquarters, Google demoed the next version of its Android operating system, showed off a revamped Google News, and added new features to its personal assistant.
Many of the changes outlined by Pichai focussed on how machine learning, a subset of AI, was helping it to use the masses of data it collects to personalise its systems for users. If you didn’t catch the full I/O keynote here’s all the big Google news from the event.