[vermarish]

It sounds like Google wants to get more edge compute in people's homes so they have a new vector to deploy AI products on, but they're still so far from actually deploying an innovative product that they can't announce anything to actually drive up hype.

Then, the rebranding is only because they've abandoned the original "minimal footprint" ethos of ChromeCast.

[colonwqbang]

This is the least suitable market for AI that I can think of. People love writing summaries for TV shows and movies. They do it for free. Why not focus on making AI do jobs that humans don't like.

I also don't think people actually long for having the machine recommend new movies and shows. At least I get enough of that from my human friends and family. ("Have you seen game of thrones? You have to watch game of thrones")