| previous additions of ai added to google products seem to have been tempered by usefulness and tech maturity. while controversial, predictive text in gmail is actually useful, is very conservative relative to chatGPT, and has been around for quite a while. predicting what measurements you want out of analytics is handy, and gives accurate information google docs/drive uses ai to surface relevant docs based on time of day, audience, and frequency of editing. it works remarkably well. google photos is mainly an ai product, and it's all-around amazing google translate is an ai product and it's gotten pretty good over the years, though it's not without competitors google's speech recognition is very good, and built in all over google products, though I never use it b/c i don't like talking to computers .... i feel like this push is likely to lead to messiness. strategy messiness, messiness in ux, messiness in terms of new ai products not being vetted the same way they were before - allowing more inaccurate results to be presented to users. maybe users will be ok with it, idk. i've appreciated the ai enhancements to google products so far, i think they've done a good job being even-handed. I hope they manage to keep their hands on the wheel. |