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you welcome to see that's live coverage of Google i/o this is Google's big developer conference Amaya's after-hour alongside Vanessa hand Orianna and Patrick Holland we'll be talking a bunch about Google before sundar Pichai heads up on stage for his big keynote which is scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m. Pacific you guys can be part of the conversation tell us what you want to see at i/o with and tweet us with the hashtag CNET live so used the hashtag seen that live and we'll be able to talk to you guys later now in the past bubala juice IOT reduce all kinds of new stuff new versions of android google home android web 2.0 google play music what do you want to see out of Google i/o this year I want to see a whole bunch of things but I think I'm probably most excited to see where they're gonna take their where OS they rebranded Android wear into the where OS but I feel like their wearables have kind of been lagging in terms of updates and they haven't kind of kept up kept up and so I'm interested to see what they do with that I would love to see hardware her from Google maybe a pixel branded watch but I know that's a long shot so you know I'm actually the pixel we're thankful where I would totally wear pixel wear but yeah I'm just interesting interest is to see what they do with that I'm sure they'll do a lot of partnerships but and then maybe some project jacquard type stuff where they're actually integrating technology into the pieces of clothing that we wear Levi's smart gesture-based like the fabric on the sleeve like the way you have different gestures on it so if I'm writing a bike I can swipe and go turn-by-turn for directions or control my music but you could put that stuff anywhere you could put it in a shirt or another jacket or a smart tie hashtag smart ties I mean that makes a lot of sense with Android wear name it shouldn't just be limited to watches in general but I know Google still has avoided making their own watch for so long I don't know if they're ready yet well they sound like so I have tagged pics away or hash tag smart time but we saw last year nobody I saw last year a health product come out called the Smart Watch it was it was the study watch it warily glance yeah barely Labs which is part of a alphabet Google formally Guth Google health services all that being said it would every one's reaction was like oh my god I want to this though was a consumer-facing so but what was neat about it was designed with simple had an e ee display and the thing that kills me about android wear right now is it actually had a battery life where it's enter and where's have hardly any battery life so man I'm all about AI want to see I think AI the artificial intelligence Google uses they're the things that are gonna be the recipes for things that are gonna be kind of baked later into products so for example some of the ones it saw last year are like stuff like smart reply in Gmail where it can like come up with your own vernacular for instant replies we also see the AI they use no other camera stuff we got to review the Google Clips camera which it doesn't have a shutter on it it lets it decides when to take the picture or the video for you using artificial intelligence it's kind of exciting maybe a little creepy yes I like stuff like their Google VR 180 which it's a newer platform that they're using but all this AI if anything gets it out stays maybe you won't see hardware products for today but it might be stuff that will make its way into hardware and that makes a lot of sense and I oh it's all about the developers have to come up with different ways to use Google's technologies with their products in the future and AI is a huge back-end for all these products to work together in a way that just makes it feel like the future everything should be able to figure out things but it seems like that have issues with privacy in general and how much data you want shared between devices so all right so we're OS yeah what about you I would like assistant to be consistent between devices I'm on Google home and my phone and a watch too all work the exact same way and maybe that's where I comes in yeah maybe that could tie everything together where I can just talk to something and it always works as opposed to it being well Google home knows this and phone does knows this and watch has very little idea of what's going on although that got a lot better recently now we've got a live shot of Lexi fetus who's at Google IO right now and we can get a much better look at the big event wack-bag Lexi let's find out what it's like over at i/o right now let's how is it over there hi everybody and welcome to Google i/o 2018 I'm Lexi's Avedis I am here in Mountain View California it is a bright sunny day this is the shoreline amphitheater I am standing just outside the keynote is going to take place right in there as you can see it is nice bright sunny it looks kind of like a music festival here now Google I over the past few years has definitely got bigger than ever this year is no exception it is huge there are thousands of people here there's lots of signage to show that we are at i/o and also a little bit of the iconography there of the Bay Area with the Bay Bridge but all attendees get this a little swag bag I want to do a little quick swag unboxing a D swag for you to show you what I've got every attendee gets this so they get the swag bag then they get a water bottle very useful on bright sunny hot days like this they get a t-shirt whoo look at this yeah there we go there's a little IO signage there too inside there's also some Sony's and there is also some Sun screen very useful all right let's take you inside I'm gonna walk and put the swag bag in the back so let's keep going and walk inside into the keynote in Shoreline Amphitheatre now it's super super loud in there right now I want to take you inside and if it gets a little noisy it's because they're running this really cool demo at the moment they're actually DJing using a couple of synths and a couple of machines and doing a machine-learning demo sorry it's a little couple of stairs leading into the amphitheater lots of people filing in now let's go down here lots of developers and attendees running around here we go give me a little bit of the vibe here in Mountain View it's getting noisier I don't know if you can hear it but the volume is cranking here we go alright just take a look at how many people are in here just have a look at this as we walk inside this is a lot of developers ladies and gentlemen have a look at this it's like a music concert seriously lots of people all over the place from all walks of life all over the world have come to see this as I was mentioning before there's that cool demo down on the stage of the moment they using a couple of DJ tools and some machine learning to kind of change the instruments and change the effects it all sounds really interesting it's a little quieter than it was before thankfully because it was kind of like blaringly loud but there you go so the keynote it's gonna kick off in around about 20 minutes or so back to you guys in the studio I'll catch you later thanks Alexa that looks great like there's so many people at this event which means we've seen some really cool software in the future or maybe some hardware I'm just impressed at how much it looks like at a concert and I'm yeah I'm glad she went through the swag bag is very curious to see what they get definitely not the the VR headset underneath the seat that I was expecting I'll have to find out what else is actually gonna be showing off at i/o but on a quick programming note we're launching a new show it's called alphabet city and I'll be the host we're gonna cover everything to do with alphabet from A to Z and we will stop at G a lot since alphabet owns Google alphabet owns a lot of companies it's coming too soon that to end YouTube very soon keep an eye out for that so let's talk a little bit about some of the recent Google News and maybe they'll give us an idea what we can expect at i/o because back in March Android P was released or at least announced and they showed off a preview version of it and it has not support and it has rounded quarters and not a heck of a lot of super shiny amazing stuff that'll face consumers is anyone here excited by Android P from what we've seen so far okay I think from like you mentioned from what we've seen so far if not support is something that you're you're excited about or your touting then that kind of gives us a preview of how exciting this new launch is gonna be but I'm hoping that that was just a preview and that we're gonna see more features I'm excited about more privacy features because I think that's a hot topic this year especially after f8 and what we saw the of what Facebook is doing I think with AI coming I think they have to do a lot to preemptively make sure that the users data is gonna be taken care of so I'm interested to see that so entropy and their privacy maybe you know we saw a person by the name of Gabriel Byrne put up an album on Google photos with images claiming to be Android P beta which this is around the right time when would release a beta version of it and there's a video showing off how these other features could be and what was really noticeable is that there's a lot more gesture support similar to something on iphone 10 where you could swipe up from the home bar so it seems like maybe what we're seeing if this is real that the software is adjusting to the way the hardware is changing yeah we're gonna have not just we're gonna have less buttons what do you guys think of this video do you think it's legit do you think this is where androids going yeah I mean I think it is a but also I think it's fair to say that before there was it was on the iPhone was also on the palm and palm and Android have a little bit of a history together too with developers from palm slowly working over but that cart cart systems been around since like 2008 or 2009 that being said I think it is it does say something that we're talking about notches and videos that may have been posted by Gabriel Byrne I don't know if that's the actor very good actor he might be kind of lonely yeah exactly and then but on the flip side I think there's a lot that we don't know about it Google Google about Android PE and I think that's what I'm more interested in last time Android Oreo brought a lot of stability fixes some curious to see I hope it's more than just notches and stuff like that because that's I'm not very excited right now about Android P yeah I mean I've seen this when the privacy stuff if NASA was talking about how these apps will be more sandbox they can't really take data from app to app so that's gonna be more helpful with Android P and again that's really useful for like day to day stuff but I don't know if that's gonna wow consumers like oh yeah I really want Android P but that's not really what everything's all about with these upgrades right it's about the user experience getting better and better as you won by the time that actually rolls out to users I mean that's one of the big problems of Android right now is that fragmentation that we've kind of talked about before and so you know even these privacy features come along how long is it going to take for us to finally be able to implement them into our devices and someday I should say else about the video we watched YouTube is like some of those things we've seen on other Android phones maybe they aren't the pure version of Android Oreo or the Android before that but the idea is like something like using like your finger to navigate around like we have we seen them in the last few Motorola and it's a really neat interface so to bring that option to just built into the operating system will make it faster and maybe more reliable but it's interesting to see I'm excited cuz I think that could be really cool and that could also as we get rid of things like home buttons or they go into the back like how do we navigate our our phones right now a lot of it is based around those notches and face ID or something like that but I don't know maybe there's way too there's a new way that we haven't even seen yet then we'll see some of that today educate the consumers on that too because that's a big change when you have oh there's a button now there's no button how do you interact with this it's got to be intuitive so that's what a lot of education side that Google would have to figure out how to do or the phone manufacturers in themselves using Android P then there's a whole bunch of watch stuff we talked a little bit about that but back in March when they rebranded Android wear to wear OS because it works with iOS too it works with everything because it's not just all about Android when it comes to wear OS now it also had a huge upgrade with Google Assistant when where so you can get contextual answers so if you asked the weather it would say well you want to know about tomorrow or not so it gave it a lot more information plus watches that had speakers could actually talk back to you as opposed your just reading a readout or ki bluetooth headphones connected you guys think there's a particular reason why Google still doesn't make a watch is there a reason why they may have partners like LG and and what was that Kors guy again Michael Michael Kors again fossil I don't get still such a small portion of the market wearables I mean it may be the future it definitely is something that companies should be looking at right now but it's such a small slice of the pie that I think it it had they haven't been wanting to invest yet when it still hasn't taken taken off I mean we see Fitbit and apple watch that are starting to creep in but there's still if you look at the pie as a whole there's still a tiny sliver and so I don't think it's worth worth it for them to just invest in it quite yet so maybe they're waiting for the right time to invest and the right kind of product the right time to invest in the SmartWatch I like that well I think it was like you know there's some basic things like battery life I mean unfortunately than Android wear stuff I've tried which is now where oh s is the fact that it doesn't last long you can barely get through a day at that was even true a little bit of the Apple watch so hopefully some of the updates we see can be about power management I think once you figure that out once you figure I can get through a day with my fancy Michael Kors watch that would be awesome and if they could talk back to me that would be awesome and if it had that contextual stuff that Google assistant brings to my phone and my other parts of like my smart speakers that would be awesome and I think that the Google assistant portion is really is what's going to set apart the am sorry the where OS device is because that's something that nobody's been able to beat Google at they have all that data they have all that the smarts behind it and if they can incorporate it into wearables I think that would definitely set them apart in the market but I think you know the conversation of the eyes is a huge topic here and I think it's going to be a tad IO they've been leading the charge and not in AI and you know in terms of the for consumer facing and also for businesses so I'm really curious to see what they're gonna announce how far they're taking AI right now which hopefully we'll see a little bit of actual demo there's also been some more assistant news Google is investing the startups they put up a blog post they said that Google is it's saying that it's opening a new investment program for early-stage startups that share our passion for the digital assistant ecosystem so Google itself is investing in companies so they can get them moving to help this whole digital assistant ecosystem which is the watch and where OS excuse me because we're LS could mean anything a helmet you know glasses or whatever a jacket a tie smart I think you said you keep track of calories that was constantly check your pulse but I think with that is a brilliant idea by a strategy by Google is investing in that because we already see how much people like Google assistant in fact the latest LG phone actually has a Google assistant button Hardware button pixel phones don't even have a hardware button for that I don't think they should by the way but I think that this assess I mean that at least it's breaking into the mainstream that Google assistant is legitimate and it works really well and I think part of it some of its marketing and some of it's actually true it just it works fantastic even on an iPhone it works very well I think one of the biggest issues with using Amazon Alexa there's other ones they don't have the search function as as good as Google you can't ask it random questions and follow-ups aren't as as intuitive as with Google home and with Google assistant in general and if they can actually put enough money behind enough companies which is kind of strange considering they have they could build their own company and do whatever they want they can have another spin-off company they can have just an internal project but this is showing that if you're going to be at i/o and you're a developer yeah we're also gonna bat companies so like you have something to rely on which is really helpful well and I like how you're spinning it in a positive note that they're investing in companies to me also seems like they're kind of taking ownership of this this huge market that's gonna be a huge deal in the coming years so you can almost say that they're trying to monopolize it because I mean sundar Pichai even says that AI is going to be even more revolutionary than the internet than electricity now that remains to be seen but they're making sure that they are set up to be the AI experts in the market and it may not seem to like it right now but I mean they're gonna expand this and maybe have that monopoly in the future I'm just thinking about the the our interests are aligned our money is in you we're not gonna stop developing on our side you guys will keep developing the other side we'll keep going together but you're right if there's enough of this control how much control and how much investment they're doing I don't actually know that that is maybe like a small percentage so maybe they can't be like oh by the way company why you will now only make things in the color green right well there's that but then on the flip side like maybe if without that company why I'd be developing on their own and then usually they get bought by someone like Google or Apple so I mean the fact that they're working early on I think breaks a little bit that Silicon Valley business model is like hey we like what you didn't were to buy you and this absorb you into our product versus us doing it off the bat like hey we're gonna that way it can be a little bit it can be neutral there might be innovation that is outside the walls of Google that would not normally happen even though they're kind of known for that but also my yeah unifying factor I think - because one of the things over the years at Google is there's just all these various things going on and be able to unite them all in one stand place is pretty neat well we have Scott Stein on on the line from Google i/o as we speak let's see what what's going on there again good good we are getting ready to do the Google i/o thing and we're seeing set up here we're standing in front of a big group experiment I think this happens like every year where now there's 16,000 people simultaneously drawing someplace some sort of little like looks like a Nintendo type city if you've been there many years before so is what's different that you can tell us just by walking in what's different this year sure well the last couple years I guess like a third year now that it's been at Shoreline Amphitheatre so feels like going into a big theme park you know for you check-in and wander through the Sun is really nice today there's no big difference in the way of files then actually if you get settled into this pattern where beforehand you have this like musical thing and then you have the AI group experiments thing get everyone I guess this year it feels a lot more chill the music feels the transi and chill other years like I remember there were performances like up in the top boxes that were pretty intense maybe they want us all to relax and there was no yeah so do you think that the tone of the music and the show will reflect the announcements we're gonna see because if it was super intense is like oh we have Google home so be pumped should everybody be relaxed is this what you're getting from this vibe yeah maybe the idea is to like get us all to work well together this is the era this is the era of connectivity and peace so in that cloud I don't know maybe that's what the P and Android P means is Android peace great world peace that's what it is breaking everything together I like it it sounds like is get his Android connectivity or what was my assistant consistency its did consistency I need some of that point out above me is the site two years ago where birds were pooping on that very same awning housing I'm keeping my eye on it so far poop free which is great maybe think maybe there's like an ultrasonic repeller or something I bet that's what they installed this here knowing Google they probably took care of that that way or they just put their favorite media people underneath quit sorry Scott Stein you should have read that about us the birds are too busy tweeting that's an excuse so what are we expecting I mean obviously Android P I'm interested in seeing what other news happens with VR you know there were actually a lot of products and announcements right before i/o standalone VR headset that was announced last year mirages solo that emerged on Friday for sale and Google also has a VR 180 platform for streaming 3d and 180 degrees and the first camera the Mirage camera is now available I have it with me to try shooting some photos maybe they'll talk more about building more off that same thing Android wear or where OS now has extra assistant features I mean we'll hear a ton about assistant well hear a ton about AI and cloud but I wonder if there be any like really wild surprises that come out of left field that's what we're hoping I think and who else from seeing it is is there with you Scott give us a pain as a picture show us over here do you want to say hi we want to say hi there's a little box together Thank You Jessica there's rich there's a who's Andrew hey and we are all we're all together all together in this uh little Google box ready to start writing away with new announcements um Internet's been okay so far we have a little no it's not we it's been actually just wet out on us it's been good for me because I have that ethernet that's working but it's like a coin flip so we'll see how that goes so if we don't know you and we don't see you tweeting it's because internet went down and I oh yeah we're enjoying the bits of Internet while we can or a bird but you always expect would work better it is so Scott you know usually in October's when Google has a bunch of hardware do you have any like odds when it comes to hardware at this event because I own not exactly known for that yeah well I mean so the Google now it's a good question Google now has a more active hardware division with pixel and daydream and last year there were pixel buds and eclipse camera they're really building a collection of hardware products more than they have in a while so you'd think that there would be something else in that family maybe something new I would expect maybe at the forum for the last few years was to announce plans for that year but then we wouldn't actually see it until later on in the year those little bin those have been mostly kind of like new product ideas and I wonder if that will be there'll be something new a new area to explore or whether it'll be an updated version because that sounds a little less exciting but I think it when it comes to assistant there's certainly ambitions to put that in everything to keep getting better so we were just talking Scott we were just talking about assistant and where that's going what are the chances that we're gonna see a Google branded wearable this time maybe a pixel watch your ear to be where I was like let us whatever just I think it's a very good idea I think it's high time it happened mainly because right now they're not pushing the territory when it comes to fitness and sensors you look at Fitbit Apple Samsung you're looking at things like what you can do with heartrate to check for things like atrial fibrillation or sleep apnea there's not been a lot of talk about that as far as sensors and Google so I feel like they need a cutting edge fitness tracking on a new bleeding edge device a lot of those fashion brand watches aren't even putting heart rate on this so I mean Fitness thing and Google's cloud makes sense I would expect them to talk more about that we'll see we'll see hopefully maybe it may be that pixel branded watch but probably just the the inner-workings is what you're saying then watch it set up just something of a long battery late that looks okay and works fine and isn't too expensive actually find it used to all those things Scott do you think they actually come up with a use for Smart Watch because currently there's none there's no killer app for it yet it just isn't yeah well yeah I'd use for it but you're right it's hard to justify I think in the end well that's where Google I think has just emphasized assistant maybe maybe they're already talking I'm making the watch more of like a little Google home on your wrist but you really need anything like that actually I just had to eat with my own photo in it from this thing it's kind of like internal I seen this off behind there so yeah I think a good use case would be great I would imagine Thanks Google may not try to push too far with that right now and might focus on existing known elements of fitness and assistant if they talked about any big directions for watch have you checked under your seat yet for any other swags oh my god no I have look under the seat come on there's probably some more cables we're sneaking cables there are cables everywhere for power and Ethernet and more power so basically what you're saying is this announcement should be Wireless everything we should finally be wider why are we still tied to wires everything is tethered on a dreaming come on we had good breakfast this morning I don't know what am I yeah the bathrooms were fine very sponsored backwards alright thanks a lot Scott we're gonna check back with you yeah oh sure okay thanks guys you very much enjoy the show you know we actually got the bird comments on with the hashtag CNET live I'm bringing it up right now at least here it says Joseph he says I want to see Google i/o 2018 is Chrome OS to be more integrated into Android OS for better cross compatibility so both operating systems can talk to each other you know we didn't talk about this at all that Android and chrome you guys know about that whole fuchsia thing Google fuchsia this experimental operating system that can run on phones and on pixel books and they can run Android apps and they can it seems like it's the future because it's a Lua design type thing it's built on a different core so like it's kernels different so I was thinking this was the future for the devices because of all the legal issues Google's had in the past with Android and Oracle because maybe if they just cut ties entirely and create a whole new thing they can just say all right you know what screw your nine billion dollar deal we're doing this what do you guys think you guys would you want to see Android and chrome coming together I think it's on that I mean I think it's unnatural like it will eventually happen whether it's something we'll see now that's to beat remains a question not only elite with legal things but also just the fact that you know as form factors are happening we had the chrome book or pixel book we saw like end of last year and that was runs on Chrome but then at the same time you can run some Android apps on there but there's still a fact that Android apps work great on phones but they don't always work great on anything yeah no it doesn't work well on television and Google has not figured out how to make a true television product that it doesn't it sort of works on watches sort of tablets are I mean what's the deal with the tablets because now they're used in Chrome OS tablets it seems like Android arguably is best suited to a phone and that's not what Google wants they want Android and everything there's an Android auto there's Android this I think we see that in like Apple's model to where you have like the iOS and Mac OS kind of merging but then if you look to our friends at Microsoft they tried something like that now like what five years ago whatever with like yeah did not go so well bringing working of Windows that was supposed to be for everything so I still think it's gonna be a while before things emerged whether it has happened or whether it's forced on us will be the question but at the same time someone like Google could do it and they have a big opportunity too because something like that would make me hop on board with stuff more like stuff for Chrome on TV and Chrome on my laptop I would be really excited about that there I think they're set to be the first to do it now whether or not they do it here whether or not they do it now that remains to be seen but I think it's a great it's a great topic of conversation and thanks to Joseph for the for the tweet yeah I'm still trying to figure out what there's what Google strategy's gonna be on this because they need to have one just have a strategy and the biggest thing is this is for the developers making an app that works from one device of the next and the next to the next and different form factors is like the Holy Grail you don't wanna have to create after the particular for one device or the other because then your apps sort of seem larger these apps don't need to be like you know behind iOS on certain things so that's that's where this poll really should be from well I'd like to say that Siri and it's something that we have started seeing things being a little more unified at Google which is not something that are known for but even in their hardware design like that pixel book I alluded to earlier the hardware match the pixel phone Scott was talking about the Google Clips camera and VR 180 the apps for that look identical when you look at them on your phone it's kind of the same interface and I got to talk to one of the developers behind the app or behind the VR e-180 platform and they saying it's intentional like Google is trying to have a unified look and feel so it is natural to think that chrome and Android will at some time merge whether again it's out of a legal necessity but I think out of a user necessity and they don't have the legacy that Apple has or Microsoft has with compute computers on desktops or operating systems on desktops or operates this among laptops so they have a chance to just go and do it and it's questioned as well they do it here today I don't know now if we talk a little bit about television because I'm always obsessed with television my whole life is about being super lazy and worked really hard to make sure all my texts really great at homes I can this be super lazy I want you know the ability to find anything at any time and Google they've tried to do this we're like you could ask it hey I want to watch this show yes you can do that with Miroku and yes you can do that with Siri on Apple TV but Android TV does have a search function but Android TV is really not taken off in any given way there was oh we'll talk about that later it looks like the keynotes about to begin let's take you there live and don't forget we'll be back with our post show to unpack all the news and remember to tweet your thoughts and questions with the hashtag CNET live let's see what cinder has to say this is a true love story song a triumphant of Toby's song with only one small caddy this one hasn't happened yet it's not the strongest good morning welcome to Google i/o it's a beautiful day I think warmer than last year hope you're all enjoying it thank you for joining us I think we have over 7,000 people here today as well as many many people via live streaming this to many locations around the world so thank you all for joining us today we have a lot to cover but before we get started you know I had one important business which I wanted to get over with towards the end of last year it came to my attention that we had a major bug in one of our core products it turns out we got the cheese strong in our burger emoji anyway we went hard to work I never knew so many people care about where the cheese is we fixed it you know the irony of the whole thing is I'm a vegetarian in the first place so we fixed it but I hopefully we got the cheese right but as we were working on this this came to my attention I I didn't I don't even want to tell you the explanation the team gave me as to why the form is floating about the beer but we restored the natural laws of physics so all as well we can get back to business we can talk about all the progress since last year's i/o I'm sure all of you would agree it's been an extraordinary year on many fronts I'm sure you've all felt it we're at an important inflection point in computing and it's exciting to be driving technology forward and it's made us even more reflective about our responsibilities expectations for technology vary greatly depending on where you are in the world or what opportunities are available to you for someone like me who grew up without a phone I can distinctly remember how gaining access to technology can make a difference in your lives and we see this in the work we do around the world you see it when someone gets access to a smartphone for the first time and you can feel it in the huge demand for digital skills we see that's why we've been so focused on bringing digital skills to communities around the world so far we have trained over 25 million people and we expect that number to rise over 60 million in the next five years it's clear technology can be a positive force but it's equally clear that we just can't be wide eyed about the innovations technology creates there are very real and important questions being raised about the impact of these advances and the role they will play in our lives so we know the path ahead needs to be navigated care fully and deliberately and we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right that's the spirit at which we are approaching our core mission to make information more useful accessible and beneficial to society I've always felt that we were fortunate as a company to have a timeless mission that feels as relevant today as when we started and very excited about how we can approach our mission with renewed vigor thanks to the progress we seen ai ai is enabling this too for us to do this in new ways solving problems for our users around the world last year at Google i/o we announced Google ai it's a collection of our teams and efforts to bring the benefits of AI to everyone and we want this to work globally so we are opening AI centers around the world ai is going to impact many many fields and I want to give you a couple of examples today healthcare is one of the most important fields ai is going to transform last year we announced her work on diabetic retinopathy it's a leading cause of blindness and we use deep learning to help doctors diagnose it earlier and we've been running field trials since then at our oven and Sankara hospitals in India and the field trials are going really well we are bringing expert diagnosis to places where trained doctors are scarce it turned out using the same retinal scans there were things which humans quite didn't know to look for but our AI systems offered more insight your same eye scan turns out holes information with which we can predict the five-year risk of you having an adverse cardiovascular event heart attack or strokes so to me the interesting thing is that you know more than what doctors could find in these I scans the machine learning systems offered newer insights this could be the basis for a new non-invasive way that cardiovascular risk and we are working we just published the research and we are going to be working to bring this to field trials with our partners another area where AI can help is to actually help doctors predict medical events turns our doctors have a lot of difficult decisions to make and for them getting advanced notice say 24 to 48 hours before a patient is likely to get very sick has a tremendous difference in the outcome and so we put our machine learning systems to work we've been working with our partners using de-identified medical records and it turns out if you go and analyze over a hundred thousand data points per patient more than any single doctor could analyze we can actually quantitatively predict the chance of readmission 24 to 48 hours before earlier than traditional methods it gives doctors more time to app we are publishing our paper on this later today and we are looking forward to partnering with hospitals and medical institutions another area where AI can help is accessibility you know we can make day-to-day use cases much easier for people let's take a common use case you know you you come back home in the night and you turn your TV on it's not that uncommon to see two people passionately two or more people passionately talking over each other imagine if you are hearing impaired and you're relying on closed captioning to understand what's going on this is how it looks to you as you can see it's gibberish you can't make sense of what's going on so we have machine learning technology called looking to listen it not only looks for audio cues but combines it with visual cues to clearly disambiguate the two voices let's see how that can work maybe in YouTube level but he's a father Colangelo level in other words he understands enough just you accept use that as our right to lose on purpose you said it's alright to lose on purpose and advertise that to defend it's perfectly okay you said it's okay we have nothing else to talk about we have a lot to talk about but you can see how we can put technology to work to make an important day-to-day use case profoundly better you know the great thing about technology is it's constantly evolving in fact we can even apply machine learning to a 200 year old technology Morse code and make an impact in someone's quality of life let's take a look hi I am Tanya this is my voice I use Morse code by putting dots and dashes with switches mounted near my head as a very young child I used to communication word board I used a head stick to point to the words it was very attractive to say the least once Morse code was incorporated into my life it was a feeling of pure liberation and freedom I think that is why I like skydiving so much it is the same kind of feeling through skydiving I met Ken the love of my life and partner in crime it's always been very very difficult just to find Morris code devices the try Morris code this is why I had to create my own with the help from Ken I have a voice and more independence in my daily life but most people don't have Ken it is our hope that we can collaborate with the G board team to help people who want to tap into the freedom of using Morse code G board is the Google keyboard what we have discovered working on G board is that there are entire pockets of population in the world and when I say pockets it's like tens of millions of people who have never had access to a keyboard that works in their own language with Tonya we've built support in G board for Morse codes it's an input modality that allows you to type in Morse code and get text out with predictions suggestions I think it's a beautiful example where machine learning can really assists someone that normal keyboard without artificial intelligence wouldn't be able to I am very excited to continue on this journey many many people will benefit from this and that thrills me to no end it's a very inspiring story we are very very excited to have Tanya and can join us today Tania and Ken are actually developers they really worked with her team to harness the power of actually predictive suggestions in G mode in G board in the context of Morse code I'm really excited the G board with Morse code is available in beta later today it's great to reinvent products with AI G board is actually a great example of it every single day we offer users and users choose over 8 billion Auto Corrections each and every day another example of a one of our core products which we are redesigning with AI is Gmail we just had a new fresher look for Gmail a recent redesign hope you're all enjoying using it we are bringing out of the feature to Gmail we call it smart compose so as the name suggests we use machine learning to start suggesting phrases for you as you type all you need to do is to hit tab and keep order completing in this case it understands the subject is Taco Tuesday it such as chips salsa guacamole it takes care of mundane things like addresses so that you don't need to worry about it you can actually focus on what you want to type I've been loving using it I've been sending a lot more emails to the company not sure what the company thinks of it but it's been great we are rolling out smart composed to all our users this month and hope you enjoy using it as well another product which we built from the ground up using AI is Google photos works amazingly well and it's scales you know if you click on one of these photos what we call the photo viewer experience where you're looking at one photo at a time so that you understand the scale every single day there are over five billion photos viewed by our users each and every day so we want to use the AI to help in those moments so we are bringing a new feature called suggested actions essentially suggesting Smart Actions right in context for you to act on say for example you went to a wedding and you're looking through those pictures we understand your friend Lisa is in the picture and we offer to share the three photos with Lisa and with one click those photos can be sent to her so the anxiety very everyone is trying to get the picture on their phone I think we can make that better say for example if the photo in the same wedding if the photos are underexposed or AI systems offer a solution to fix the brightness right there one tap and we can fix the brightness for you or if you took a picture of a document which you want to save for later we can recognize convert the document to PDF and make it make it much easier for you to use later you know we want to make all these simple cases delightful by the way I can also deliver unexpected moments so for example if you have this picture cute picture of your kid we can make it better we can drop the background color pop the color and make the kid even cuter or if you happen to have a very special memory something in black and white maybe of your mother and grandmother we can recreate that moment in color and make that moment even more real and special all these features are going to be rolling out to Google Photos users in the next couple of months the reason we are able to do this is because for a while we've been investing in the scale of our computational architecture this is why last year we talked about our tensor processing units these are special purpose machine learning chips these are driving all the product improvements you're seeing today and we've made it available to our cloud customers since the last year we've been hard at work and today I'm excited to announce our next generation TPU 3.0 these chips are so powerful that for the first time we've had to introduce liquid cooling in our data centers and we put these chips in the form of giant pots each of these parts is now 8 X more powerful than last year's well over 100 peda flops and this is what allows us to develop better models larger models more accurate models and helps us tackle even bigger problems and one of the biggest problems we are tackling with the AI is the Google Assistant our vision for the perfect assistant is that it's naturally conversational it's there when you need it so that you can get things done in the real world and we are working to make it even better we want the assistant to be something that's not shrill and comfortable to talk to and to do that we need to start with the foundation of the Google assistant the voice today that's how most users interact with our system our current voice is codenamed Holly she was a real person she spent months in our studio and then we stitched those recordings together to create voice but 18 months ago we announced a breakthrough from our deep mine team called wavenet unlike the current systems wavenet actually models the underlying raw audio to create a more natural voice it's closer to how humans speed the pitch the pace even all the pauses that convey meaning we want to get all of that right so we've worked hard at wavenet and we are adding as of today six new voices to the Google assistant let's have them say hello good morning everyone I'm your Google assistant welcome to Shoreline Amphitheatre we hope you'll enjoy Google i/o back to you sundar you know our goal is one day to get the right accents languages and dialects right globally you know wavenet can make this much easier with this technology we started wondering who we could get into the studio with an amazing voice take a look couscous a type of North African semolina in granules made from crushed durum wheat I want a puppy with sweet eyes and a fluffy tail who likes my haikus don't we all happy birthday to the person whose birthday it is happy birthday to you John Legend he would probably tell you he don't want to brag but he'll be the best assistant you ever had can you tell me where you live you can find me on all kinds of devices phones Google homes and if I'm lucky in your heart that's right John Legend's voice is coming to the assistant clearly he didn't spend all the time in the studio answering every possible question that you could ask but wavenet allowed us to shorten the studio time and the model can actually capture the richness of his voice his voice will be coming later this year in certain contexts so that you can get responses like this right now in Mountain View it's sixty five with clear skies today it's predicted to be 75 degrees and sunny at 10 a.m. you have an event called Google i/o keynote then at 1:00 p.m. you have margaritas have a wonderful day I'm looking forward to 1 p.m. so John's voice is coming later this year I'm really excited we can drive advances like this with AI we are doing a lot more with the Google assistant and to talk to you a little bit more about it that mean whites caught on to the stage hey call Maddy okay dialing now hey Google booked a table for four sounds good hey Google call my brother hey Google call my brother can you text Carol for me too hey Kevin that was great we haven't made you Google work yet so you have to say hey hey Google hey Google Play sincere hey Google play the next episode why the crown on Netflix all Channing Tatum movies okay no goo that was great um Chris get one where you say hey Google Google find my phone binding now whoa hey Google no Google like the front door okay let's just go with your Google then I'm sure the engineers would love to update everything you two years ago we announced the Google assistant right here at i/o today the assistant is available on over 500 million devices including phones speakers headphones TVs watches and more it's available in cars from more than 40 auto brands and it works with over 5,000 connected home devices from dishwashers to doorbells and people around the world are using it every single day for example we launched the assistant in India last year and the response has been incredible daily usage there has tripled since the beginning of the year now by the end of this year the assistant will support 30 languages and be available in 80 countries so we've made great progress but we're just getting started today we're going to share with you some important ways that the assistant is becoming more naturally conversational and visually assistive in order to help you do more and get fine back now as you heard from sundar new voices that you can choose from to make the Google assistant your own are an important aspect of making a conversation with your assistant more natural but to be a great conversation partner the assistant needs to deeply understand the social dynamics of conversation for example let's be honest it gets a little annoying to say hey Google every time I want to get my assistants attention this grandma who you might have seen on YouTube was definitely feeling that way tomorrow in Flagler Beach tomorrow there will be showers for the high of 65 in the low of 56 well the assistant eventually worked for her but it shouldn't be so hard now you won't have to say hey Google every time check this out hey Google did the Warriors win yes the Warriors won 118 to 92 last Sunday against the pelicans nice when's their next game the Warriors next game is today at 7:30 p.m. where they will be playing the pelicans great it's gonna be fun to watch tonight he remind me to find my Kevin Durant Jersey when I get home sure I'll remind you when you get home they'll notice that I was able to have a natural back-and-forth conversation with my assistant without having to repeat hey Google for every follow-up request even more helpful my assistant could understand when I was talking to it first is when I was talking to all of you we call this continued conversation and it's been a top feature request you'll be able to turn it on in the coming weeks yeah all right so let's say it's almost game time hey Google turn on the Warriors game and start the popcorn maker sure here's the Golden State Warriors game on YouTube TV and turning the popcorn maker on oh and can you dim the lights in the family room and in the kitchen sure dimming the lights in the family room and in the kitchen now you'll notice that in both of these examples I asked for multiple things at once something that feels really natural for us but it's very difficult for computers to understand it's something we call multiple actions and we're rolling out this capability and the assistant now now you might think come on it's easy just look for the end but it's not always so straightforward in this example even though it has the word and it's not two requests it's actually just one but here even though it looks very similar the assistant has to break it apart to form the two requests in linguistics it's called coordination reduction now multiple actions can get way more complicated so just for fun hey Google who was the Governor of California when Kevin Durant was drafted and what team drafted him Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor in 2007 Kevin Durant was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics alright just in case you were wondering alright so next we've also been working on improving the conversation with the Google assistant for families last fall we launched our family experience for the Google assistant it provides family friendly games activities and stories we've continued to grow our library and families have listened to over a hundred and thirty thousand hours of children's stories in the last two months alone now as we continue to improve the experience for families a concern that we've heard from many parents including people on the team who have children is our kids learning to be bossy and demanding when they can just say hey Google to ask for anything they need it's not a simple area but one step that we've been working on is something we call pretty please some of the parents on the team have been testing out with their families take a look hey Google Talk - voice thanks for saying please please what a nice way to ask me thanks for asking so nicely once upon a time there was a wacky walrus please help you're very polite so the assistant understands and responds to positive conversation with polite reinforcements now we've been consulting with families and child development experts and we plan to offer pretty please as an option for families later this year so with new voices for your assistant continued conversation multiple actions and pretty please a is helping us make big strides so everyone can have a more natural conversation with their assistant and now I'd like to introduce Lillian who's going to share some exciting things that are doing bringing voice and visual assistance together well thanks Scott and good morning everyone over the last couple of years the assistant has been focused on the verbal conversation that you can have with Google today we're going to unveil a new visual canvas for the Google assistant across screens this will bring the simplicity of voice together with a rich visual experience now I'm gonna invite Maggie to come out because we're gonna be switching to a lot of live demos we gave you an early look at our new smart displays at CES in January we're working with some of the best consumer electronic brands and today I'm excited to announce that the first smart displays will go on sale in July today I'll show you some of the ways that this new device can make your day easier by bringing the simplicity of voice with a glance ability of a touchscreen so let's switch over to the live demos now this is one of the Lenovo smart displays the ambient screen integrates with Google photos and greets me pictures of my kids Bella and Hudson those are really my kids and best way to start my day every morning now because the device is controlled by voice I can watch videos or live TV with just a simple command this makes it so easy to enjoy my favorite shows while multitasking around the house hey Google let's watch Jimmy Kimmel Live okay playing Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube TV here's something from my life I was driving my daughter in school this morning so that's right on YouTube TV you will be able to watch all of these amazing shows from local news live sports and much more and they will be available on smart displays now of course you can also enjoy all the normal content from YouTube including how-to videos music and original shows like the brand new series Cobra Kai which we started binge watching this week because it's so good now cooking is another instance where the blend of voice and visuals is incredibly useful Nick and I are always looking for simple family-friendly recipes hey Google show me recipes for Pizza bombs sure here are some recipes so we can choose the first one from tasty that one looks good you see all the recipe details come right up and we can just tap to start cooking sure here's tasty so seeing a video demonstration along with the spoken instructions is a total GameChanger for cooking especially when you have your hands full thanks Maggie so we showed you a couple of ways that smart displace can make life at home easier but there are so many more from staying in touch with family with broadcasts and do a video colleague to keeping an eye on your home with all of our other smart home partners to seeing in advance what the morning commutes like with Google Maps we're thoughtfully integrating the best of Google and working with developers and partners all around the world to bring voice and visuals together in a completely new way for the home now inspired by the smart display experiences we've also been working to reimagine the assistant experience on the screen that's with us all the time our mobile phones so I'm gonna give you a sneak peek into how the assistant on the phone is becoming more immersive interactive and proactive so we're gonna switch to another live demo hey Google tell me about Camila Cabello according to Wikipedia Carla Camila Cabello ester Bao is a American singer and songwriter so as you can see we're taking full advantage of the screen to give you a rich and immersive response here's another turn down the heat sure cooling the living room down and for a smart home request what you can see here is we're bringing the controls right into your fingertips and here's one of my favorites hey Google order my usual from Starbucks hello welcome back to Starbucks that's one tall nonfat latte with caramel drizzle anything else so no thanks and are you picking that up at the usual place I'm gonna tap yes okay your orders in see you soon yeah so we're excited to share that we were working with Starbucks Dunkin Donuts story - Domino's and many other partners on a new food pickup and delivery experience for the Google assistant we have already started rolling some of these out with many more partners coming soon now rich and interactive responses to my requests are really helpful but my ideal assistant should also be able to help in a proactive way so when I'm in the assistant now and swipe up I now get a visual snapshot of my day I see helpful suggestions based on the time my location and even my recent interactions with the assistant I also have my reminders packages and even notes a list organized and accessible right here I love the convenience of having all these details helpfully curated and so easy to get to now this new visual experience for the phone is thoughtfully designed with AI at the core it will launch on Android this summer an iOS later this year now sometimes the assistant can actually be more helpful by having a lower visual profile so like when you're in the car let's say you should stay focused on driving so let's say I'm heading home from work I have Google Maps showing me the fastest route during rush hour traffic hey Google said Nick my ETA and place some hip-hop okay letting Nick know you're 20 minutes away and check out this hip-hop music station on YouTube so it's so convenient to share my ETA with my husband with just a simple voice command I'm excited to share that the assistant will come to navigation and Google Maps this summer so across smart displays phones and in maths this gives you a sense of how we're making the google assistant more visually assistive sensing when to respond with voice and went to show a more immersive and interactive experience and with that I'll turn it back to sundar thank you thanks Lillian it's great to see the progress with that system as I said earlier our vision for our system is to help you get things done it turns out a big part of getting things done it's making a phone call you may want to get an oil change schedule maybe call a plumber in the middle of the week or even schedule a haircut appointment you know we are working hard to help users through those moments we want to connect users to businesses in a good way businesses actually rely a lot on this but even in the u.s. 60% of small businesses don't have an online booking system Sarah we think hey I can help with this problem so let's go back to this example let's say you want to ask Google to make you a haircut appointment on Tuesday between 10:00 and noon what happens is the Google assistant makes the call seamlessly in the background for you so what you're going to hear is the Google assistant actually calling a real salon to schedule the appointment for you let's listen for what time are you looking for well at 12:00 p.m. we do not have a false cam available the closest we have to that is a 1:15 do you have anything between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. depending on what service she would like what service is she looking for just a woman's haircut for now ok we have a 10 o'clock 10:00 a.m. is fine okay what's her first name the first name is Lisa I'll say perfect so I will see we thought 10 o'clock on May 3rd ok great have a great day bye that was a real call you just turned the amazing thing is the assistant can actually understand the nuances of conversation we've been working on this technology for many years it's called Google duplex it brings together all our investments over the years and natural language understanding deep learning text-to-speech by the way when we are done the assistant can give you a confirmation notification saying your appointment has been taken care of let me give you another example let's say you want to call a restaurant but maybe it's a small restaurant which is not easily available to book online the call actually goes a bit differently than expected so take a listen it's for four people like five people four people before you can come how long is the way usually to be seated for next Wednesday the 7th oh no it's not too busy you can okay oh I got you Thanks again that was real call with many of these examples where the calls quite don't go as expected but the assistant understands the context the nuance it knew to ask for wait times in this case and handle the interaction gracefully but we are still developing this technology and we actually want to work hard to get this right get the user experience and the expectation right for both businesses and uses but done correctly it'll save time for people and generate a lot of value for businesses we really want it to work in cases safe here a busy pattern in the morning and your kid is sick and you want to call for a doctor's appointment so we're gonna work hard to get destroyed there is a more straightforward case where we can roll this out sooner where for example every single day we get a lot of queries into Google where people are wondering on the opening and closing hours of businesses but it gets tricky during holidays and businesses get a lot of calls so we as Google can make just that one phone call and then update the information for millions of users and it'll save a small business countless number of calls so we're gonna get moments like this right and make the experience better for users this is going to be rolling out as an experiment in the coming weeks and so stay tuned in a common theme across all this is we are working hard to give users back time we've always been obsessed about that at Google search is obsessed about getting users to answers quickly and giving them what they want which brings me to another area digital wellbeing now based on our research we know that people feel tethered to their devices sure it resonates with all of you there is increasing social pressure to respond to anything you get right away people are anxious to stay to stay up-to-date with all the information out there they have FOMO fear of missing out we wanted we think there's a chance for us to do better we've been talking to people and some people introduced to us the concept of jomo the actual joy of missing out so so we think we can really help users with digital wellbeing this is going to be a deep ongoing effort across all our products and platforms and we need all your help we think we can help users with their digital well-being in four ways we want to help you understand your habits focus on what matters switch off when you need to and above all find balance with your family so let me give a couple of examples you're going to hear about this from Android a bit later in their upcoming release but one of my favorite features is dashboard in Android we actually give you going to give how you're spending your time the apps where you're spending your time the number of times you unlock your phone on a given day the number of notifications you God and we're going to really help you deal with this better you know apps can also help YouTube is going to take the lead and if you choose to do so it'll actually remind you to take a break so for example if you a while maybe it'll show up and say hey it's time to take a break YouTube is also going to work to combine if users want to come by and all their notifications in the form of a daily digest so that if you have for notification it comes to you once during the day YouTube is going to roll out all these features this week you know we've been doing a lot of work in this area family link is a great example where we provide parents tools to help manage kids screen time I think this is an important part of it we want to do more here if you want to equip kids to make smart decisions so we have a new approach at Google design approach it's called be internet awesome to help kids become safe explorers of the digital world we want kids to be secure kind mindful and online and we are pledging to train an additional 5 million kids this coming year all these tools you're seeing is launching with our digital wellbeing site later today another area where we feel tremendous responsibility is news news is core to our mission also times like this it's more important than ever to support quality journalism it's foundational to how democracies work I've always been fond of news growing up in India I have distinct memory of I used to wait for the physical newspaper turns out my grandma my grandfather used to stay right next to us there was a clear hierarchy he got his hands on the newspaper first then my dad and then my brother and I would go at it you know I was mainly interested in the sports section at that time but over time I developed a fondness for news and it stayed with me even till today it is challenging time for the news industry recently we launched Google News initiative and we committed 300 million dollars over the next three years we want to work with organizations and journalists to help develop innovative products and programs that held the industry we've also had a product here for a long time Google News it was actually built right after 9/11 it was a 20% project by one of our engineers who wanted to see news from a variety of sources to better understand what happened since then if anything the volume and diversity of content has only grown I think there is more great journalism being produced today than ever before it's also true that people turn to Google in times of need and we have a responsibility to provide that information this is why we have reimagined our news product we are using AI to bring forward the best of what journalism has to offer we want to give users quality sources that they trust but we want to build a product that works for publishers above all we want to make sure we are giving them deeper insight and a fuller perspective about any topic they're interested in I'm really excited to announce the new Google News and here's Tristan to tell you more Thank You sundar with the new Google News we set out to help you do three things first keep up with the news you care about second understand the full story and finally enjoy and support the sources you love after all without news publishers and the quality journalism that they produce we'd have nothing to show you here today so let's start with how make it easy for you to keep up with the news you care about as soon as I open Google News right at the top I get a briefing with the top five stories I need to know right now as I move past my briefing there are more story selected just for me our a I constantly reads the firehose of the web for you the millions of articles videos podcasts and comments being published every minute and assembles the key things you need to know Google News also pulls in local voices and news about events in my area it's this kind of information that makes me feel connected to my community this article from The Chronicle makes me wonder how long it would take to ride across this new Bay Bridge what's cool is I didn't have to tell the app that I follow politics love to bike or want information about the Bay Area it works right out of the box and because we've applied techniques like reinforcement learning throughout the app the more I use it the better it gets and at any point I can jump in and say whether I want to see less or more or of a given publisher or topic and whenever I want to see what the rest of the world is reading I can switch over to headlines to see the top stories that are generating the most coverage right now around the world so let's keep going you can see there are lots of big gorgeous images that make this apps super engaging and a truly great video experience let's take a look this brings you all the latest videos from YouTube and around the wind all of our design choices focus on keeping the app light easy fast and fun our guiding principle is to let the story speak for themselves so it's pretty cool right what we're seeing here throughout the app is the new Google material theme the entire app is built using material design our adaptable unified design system that's been uniquely tailored by Google later today you'll hear more about this and how you can use material themes in your products we're also excited to introduce a new visual format we call newscasts you are not going to see these in any other news app newscasts are kind of like a preview of the story and they make it easier if you get a feel for what's going on check out this one on the Star Wars movie here we're using the latest developments in natural language understanding to bring together everything from the solo movie trailer - news articles to quotes and from the cast and more in a fresh presentation that looks absolutely great on your phone newscast gives me an easy way to get the basics and decide where I want to dive in more deeply and sometimes I even discover things I never would have found out otherwise for the stories I care about most or the ones that are really complex I want to be able to jump in and see many different perspectives so let's talk about our second goal for Google News understanding the full story today it takes a lot of work to broaden your point of view and understand a news story in depth with Google News we set out to make that effortless full coverage is an invitation to learn more it gives a complete picture of a story in terms of how it's being reported from a variety of sources and in a variety of formats we assemble full coverage using a technique we call temporal Coll ocala T this technique enables us to map relationships entities and understand the people places and things in a story right as it evolves we applied this to the deluge of information publish to the web at any given moment and then organize it around storylines all in real time this is by far the most powerful feature of the app and provides a whole new way to dig into the news take a look at how full coverage works with the recent power outage in Puerto Rico there are so many questions I had about this story like how did we get here could it have been prevented and are things actually getting better we built full coverage to help make sense of it all all in one place we start out with the set of top headlines that tell me what happened and then start to organize around the key story aspects using our real-time event understanding for news events that have played out like this one over weeks and months you can you can understand the origin of developments big by looking at our timeline of the key moments and while the recovery has begun we can clearly see there's still a long way to go there are also certain questions we're all asking about a story and we pull those out so you don't have to hunt for the answers we know context and perspective come from many places so we show you tweets from relevant voices and opinions analysis and fact checks to help you understand the story that one level deeper in each case our AI is highlighting why this is an important piece of information and what unique value it brings now when I use full coverage I find that I can build a huge amount of knowledge on the topics I care about it's a truth 360 degree view that goes well beyond what I get from just scanning a few headlines on top of this our research shows that having a productive conversation or debate requires everyone to have access to the same information which is why everyone sees the same content in full coverage for a topic it's an unfiltered view of events from a range of trusted news sources thank you so I gotta say I love these new features and these are just a few of the things we think make the new Google News so exciting but as we mentioned before none of this would exist without the great journalism newsrooms produce every day which brings us to our final goal helping you enjoy and support the new sources you love we've put publishers front and center throughout the app and here in the newsstand section it's easy to find and follow the sources I already love and browse and discover new ones including over 1,000 magazine titles like Wired National Geographic and people which all look great on my phone I can follow publications like USA Today by directly tapping the star icon and if there's a publication I want to subscribe to say The Washington Post we make it dead simple no more forms credit card numbers or new passwords because you're signed in with your Google account you're set when you subscribe to a publisher we think you should have easy access to your content everywhere and this is why we developed subscribe with Google subscribe with Google enables you to use your Google account to access your paid content everywhere across all platforms and devices on Google search Google News and publisher zone sites we built this in collaboration with over 60 publishers around the world and it will be rolling out in the coming weeks thank you and this is one of the many steps we're taking to make it easier to access dependable high-quality information when and where it matters most so that's the new Google News it helps you keep up with the news you care about with your briefing and newscasts understand the full story using full coverage and enjoy and support the new sources you love by reading following and subscribing and now for the best news of all we're rolling out on Android iOS and the web in a hundred and twenty seven countries starting today I think so too pretty cool it will be available to everyone next week at Google we know that getting accurate and timely information into people's hands and building and supporting high-quality journalism is more important than it ever has been right now and we are totally committed to doing our part we can't wait to continue on this journey with you and now I'm excited to introduce Dave to tell you more about what's going on in Android Android started with a simple goal of bringing open standards to the mobile industry today it is the most popular mobile operating system in the world if you believe in openness if you believe in choice if you believe in innovation from everyone then welcome to Android hi everyone it's great to be here at Google i/o 2018 I think clearly all developer conferences should be held outside it's pretty damn nice out here that was 10 years ago when we launched the first Android phone the t-mobile g1 it was with a simple but bold idea to build a mobile platform that was free and open to everyone and today that idea is thriving our partners have launched tens of thousands of smartphones used by billions of people all around the world and through this journey we've seen Android become more than just a smartphone operating system powering new categories of computing including wearables TV Auto ARV our IOT and the growth of Android over the last 10 years has helped fuel the shift in computing from desktop to mobile and as Souter mentioned the world is now the precipice of another shift ai is gonna profoundly change industries like healthcare and transport and is already starting to change ours and this brings me to the new version of Android we're working on Android B Android B is an important first step towards this vision of AI at the core of the operating system in fact AI underpins the first of three themes in this release which are intelligence simplicity and digital well-being so starting with intelligence we believe smartphones should be smarter they should learn from you and they should adopt you technologies such as on device machine learning can learn your usage patterns and automatically anticipate your next actions saving you time and because it runs on device the data is kept private to your phone so let's take a look at some examples of how we're applying these technologies to Android to build a smarter operating system in pretty much every survey of smartphone users you'll see battery life as the top concern and I don't know about you but this is my version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and we've all been there you know your batteries being okay but then you have one of those outlier days where it's draining faster than normal leave you to run to the charger what Android P we partnered with deepmind to work on a new feature we call adaptive battery it's designed to give you a more consistent battery experience adopted battery uses on device machine learning to figure out which apps you'll use in the next few hours and which you won't use until later if at all today and then with this understanding the operating system adapts to your usage patterns so that it spends battery only on the absent services that you care about and the results are really promising we're seeing a 30% reduction in CPU wake-ups for apps in general and this combined with other performance improvements including running background processes on the small CPU cores is resulting in an increase in batteries for many users it's pretty cool another example of how the OS is adapting to the user is auto brightness now most modern smartphones will automatically adjust the brightness given the current lighting conditions but it's a one-size-fits-all they don't take into account your personal preferences and environment so often what happens is you then need to manually adjust the brightness slider resulting the screen later becoming too bright or too dim what Android P we're introducing a new on device machine learning feature we call adaptive brightness a dr. brightness learns how you like to set the brightness slider given the ambient lighting and then does it for you in a power efficient way so you'll literally see the brightness slider move as the phone adapts to your preferences and it's extremely effective in fact we're seeing almost half of our test users now make fewer manual brightness adjustments compared to any previous version of Android we're also making the UI more intelligent last year we introduced the concept of predicted apps a feature that places the next apps the OS anticipates you need on the path you'd normally follow to launch that app and it's very effective with an almost 60 percent prediction rate would Android pee we're going to beyond simply predicting the next act to launch to predicting the next action you want to take we call this feature after actions so let's take a look at how it works at the top of the launcher you can see two actions one to call my sister Fiona and another to start a workout on Strava for my evening run so what's happening here is that the actions are being predicted based on my usage patterns the phone is adapting to me and trying to help me get to my next task more quickly as another example if I connect my headphones Android will surface in action to resume the album I was listening to to support app actions developers just need to add an actions an XML file to their app and then action surface not just in the launcher but in smart text selection the Play Store Google search and the assistant take Google search we're experimenting with different ways to surface actions for apps you've installed and use a lot for example I'm a big fan tango user so when I search for the New Avengers movie infinity war I get in addition to regular suggestions I get an action to the Fandango app to buy tickets pretty cool actions are a simple but powerful idea for providing deep links into the app given your contacts but even more powerful is bringing part of the app UI to the user right there and that we call this future slices slices are a new API for developers to define interactive snippets of their app UI that can be surfaced in different places in the OS in Android Pete were laying the groundwork by showing slices first in search so let's take a look let's say I'm out and about and I need to get a ride to work if I type lift into the Google Search app I now see a slice from the lift app installed on my phone lyft is using the slice api's rich array of UI templates to render a slice of their app in the context of search and then lift is able to give me the price for my trip to work and the slice is interactive so I can order the ride directly from it pretty nice the slice templates of versatile so developers can offer everything from playing a video to say checking into a hotel is another example if I search for Hawaii I'll see you slice from Google photos with my vacation pictures and we're working with some amazing partners on app actions and slices and we'll be opening an early access program to developers more broadly next month so we're excited to see how actions and in particular slices will enable a dynamic two-way experience where the apps UI can intelligently show up in context so that's some of the ways that we're making Android more intelligent by teaching the operating system to adapt to the user machine learning is a powerful tool but it can also be intimidating and costly for developers to learn and apply and we want to make these tools accessible and easy to use to those who have little or no expertise in machine learning so today I'm really excited to announce ml kit and you said of api's available through firebase with ml kit you get on device api's to text recognition face detection image labeling and a lot more and ml kit also supports the ability to tap into Google's cloud-based ml technologies architectural e you can think of ml kit as providing ready to use models built on tensorflow Lite and optimized for mobile and best of all ml kit is cross-platform so it runs on both Android and iOS we're working with an early set of partners on mo kit and so with some really great results for example the popular calorie counting app lose it is using our text recognition model to scan nutritional information and ml kits custom model api's to automatically classify 200 different foods through the camera you'll hear about more about ml kit at the developer keynote later today so we're excited about making your smartphone more intelligent but it's also important to us that the technology fades to the back when one of our key goals over the last few years has been to evolve androids UI to be simpler and more approachable vote for the current set of users and the next billion Android users would Android P we put a special simply emphasis on simplicity by addressing many pain points where we thought and you told us the experience was more complicated in an auto being and you'll find these improvements on any device that adopts Google's version of the Android UI such as Google pixel and Android one devices so let me walk you through a few live demos on my phone what could possibly go wrong in front of 7,000 people in a napa theater okay as part of Android P we're introducing a new system navigation that we've been working on for more than a year now and the new design makes androids multitasking more approachable and easier to understand and the first striking thing you'll notice is the single clean home button and the design recognizes a trend towards smaller screen bezels and places an emphasis on gestures over multiple buttons at the edge of the screen so when I swipe up I'm immediately brought to the overview where I can resume apps I've recently used I also get five predicted apps at the bottom of the screen to save me time now if I'd continued to swipe off or I swipe up a second time I get to all apps so architectural II what we've done is combine the all apps and overview spaces into one and the swipe of gesture works from anywhere no matter what app I'm in so that I can quickly get back to all apps an overview without losing the context I'm in and if you prefer you can also use the quick scrub gesture by sliding the home button sideways to scroll through your recent set of apps like so now one of the nice things about the larger horizontal overview is that the app content is not glanceable so you can easily refer back to information in a previous app even more is we've extended smart text selection to work in overview so for example if I tap anywhere on the phrase The Killers all of the phrase will be selected for me then I get an action to listen to it on Spotify like so and we've extended smart text selections neural network to recognize more entities like sports teams and music artists and flight codes and more I've been using this view navigation system for the last month and I absolutely love it it's a much faster more powerful way to multitask on the go so changing our navigation works it's a pretty big deal but sometimes small changes can make a big difference too so take volume control and we've all been there you try to turn down the volume before a video starts but instead you turn down the ringer volume and then the video blasts everyone around you so how are we fixing it well you can see the new simplified volume controls here they're vertical and located beside the hardware buttons so they're intuitive but the key difference is that the slider now adjusts the media volume by default because that's the thing you want to change most often and for the ringer volume all you really care about is on silent and off like so okay we've also greatly simplified rotation and if you're like me and hate your device rotating at the wrong time you'll love this feature so right now I'm in the locked rotation mode and let me launch an app and you'll notice that when I rotate the device a new rotation button appears on the nav bar and then I can just tap on it and rotate under my own control we go all right so that's a quick tour of some of the ways that we simplified the user experience in Android PE and there's lots more everything from a redesign work profile to better screenshots to improve notifications management and more speaking of notifications management we want to give you more control over demands on your attention and this highlights a concept that sundar alluded to earlier making it easier to move between your digital life and your real life to learn more about this important area and our third theme let me hand over to Sameer thanks hi everyone on a recent family vacation my partner asked if she could see my phone right after we got to our hotel room she took it from me walked over to the hotel safe locked it inside and turned and looked me right in the eye and said you get this back in seven days when we leave whoa I was shocked I was kind of angry but after a few hours something pretty cool happened without all the distractions from my phone I was actually able to disconnect be fully present and I ended up having a wonderful family vacation but it's not just me our team has heard so many stories from people who are trying to find the right balance with technology as you heard from sundar helping people with their digital wellbeing is more important to us than ever people tell us a lot of the time they spend on their phone is really useful but some of it they wish they'd spent on other things in fact we found over 70% of people want more help striking this balance so we've been working hard to add key capabilities right into Android to help people find the balance with technology that they're looking for one of the first things we focused on was helping you understand your habits Android pee will show you a dashboard of how you're spending time on your device as you saw earlier you can see how many how much time you spent in apps how many times you've unlocked your device today and how many notifications you've received and you can drill down on any of these things for example here's my Gmail data from Saturday and when I saw this it did make me wonder whether I should have been on my email all weekend but that's kind of the point of the dashboard now when you're engaging is one part of understanding but what you're engaging with in apps is equally important it's like watching TV catching up on your favorite shows at the end of a long day can feel pretty good but watching an infomercial might leave you wondering why you didn't do something else instead many developers call this concept meaningful engagement and we've been working closely with many of our developer partners who share the goal of helping people use technology in healthy ways so in Android P developers can link to more detailed breakdowns of how you're spending time in their app from this new dashboard for example YouTube will be adding a deep link where you can see total watch time across mobile and desktop and access many of the helpful tools that shouldn't sundar shared earlier now understanding is a good start but Android P also gives you controls to help you manage how and when you spend time on your phone maybe you have an app that you love but you're spending more time in it than you realized Android Piet lets you set time limits on apps and will nudge you when you're close to your limit that it's time to do something else and for the rest of the day that app icon is greyed out to remind you of your goal people have also told us they struggle to be fully present for the dinner that they're at or the meeting that they're attending because the notifications they get on their device can be distracting and too tempting to resist and come on we've all been there so we're making improvements to do not disturb mode to silence not just the phone calls and texts but also the visual interruptions that pop up on your screen to make do not disturb even easier to use we've created a new gesture that we've affectionately codenamed shush if you turn your phone over on the table it automatically enters do not disturb so you can focus on being present no pings vibrations or other distractions of course in an emergency we all want to make sure we're still reachable by the key people in our lives like your partner or your child's school Android P will help you set up a list of contacts that can always get through to you with a phone call even if Do Not Disturb is turned on finally we heard from people that they often check their phone right before going to bed and before you know it an hour two has slipped by and honestly this happens to me at least once a week getting a good night's sleep is critical and technology should help you with this not prevent it from happening so we created windown mode you can tell the Google assistant what time you aim to go to bed and when that time arrives it will switch on do not disturb and fade the screen to grayscale which is far less stimulating for the brain and can help you set the phone down it's such a simple idea but I found it's amazing how quickly I put my phone away when all my apps go back to the days before color TV don't worry all the colors return in the morning when you wake up okay that was a quick tour of some of the digital well-being features we're bringing to Android peek this fall starting with Google pixel digital well being is gonna be a long-term theme for us so look for much more to come in the future beyond the three themes of intelligence simplicity and digital well-being that Dave and I talked about there are literally hundreds of other improvements coming in Android P I'm especially excited about the security advancements we've added to the platform and you can learn more about them at the Android security session on Thursday but your big question is that's all great how do I try some of this stuff well today we're announcing Android P beta and with efforts and Android Oreo to make OS upgrades easier Android P beta is available on Google pixel and seven more manufacturer flagship devices today you can head over to this link to find out how to receive the beta on your device and please do let us know what you think okay that's a wrap on what's new in Android and now I'd like to introduce Jen to talk about Maps thank you it has changed I'm sure so much and you can actually be part of it being able to be armed with the knowledge of where you're going that you're gonna build together like anybody else can two consecutive earthquakes hit Mexico City and Google map helped a response to emergency crisis like this the hurricane had turned Houston into islands and the roads were changing constantly we kept saying thank God for Google like what would we have done it's really cool that this is helping people to keep doing what they love doing and keep doing what they need to do building technology to help people in the real world every day has been cored who we are and what we focused on at Google from the very start recent advancements in AI in computer vision have allowed us to dramatically improve long-standing products like Google Maps and have also made possible brand-new products like google lens let's start with Google Maps Maps was built to assist everyone wherever they are in the world we've mapped over 220 countries and territories and put hundreds of millions of businesses and places on the map and in doing so we've given more than a billion people the ability to travel the world with the confidence that they won't get lost along the way but we're far from done we've been making maps smarter and more detailed as advancements in AI have accelerated we're now able to automatically add new addresses businesses and buildings that we extract from Street View and satellite imagery directly to the map this is critical in rural areas in places without formal addresses and in fast changing cities like Lagos here where we literally changed the face of the map in the last few years hello Nigeria we can also tell you if the business you're looking for is open how busy it is what the wait time is and even how long people usually spend there we can tell you before you leave whether parking is going to be easy or difficult and we can help you find it and we can now give you different routes based on your mode of transportation whether you're riding a motorbike or driving a car and by understanding how different types of vehicles move at different speeds we can make more accurate traffic predictions for everyone but we've only scratched the surface of what maps can do we originally designed maps to help you understand where you are and to help you get from here to there but over the past few years we've seen our users demand more and more of maps they're bringing us harder and more complex questions about the world around them and they're trying to get more done today users aren't just asking for the fastest route to a place they also want to know what's happening around them what the new places to try are and what locals love in their neighborhood the world is filled with amazing experiences like cheering for your favorite team at a sports bar or a night out with friends or family at a cozy neighborhood Bistro we want to make it easy for you to explore and experience more of what the world has to offer we've been working hard on an updated version of Google Maps that keeps you in the know on what's new and trending in the areas you care about it helps you find the best place for you based on your context and interests let me give you a few examples of what this is gonna look like with some help from Sophia first we're adding a new tab to maps called for you it's designed to tell you what you need to know about the neighborhood's you care about new places that are opening what's trending now and personal recommendations here I'm being told about a cafe that just opened in my area if we scroll down I see a list of the restaurants that are trending this week this is super useful because with zero work maps is giving me ideas to kick me out of my rut and inspire me to try something new but how do I know if a place is really right for me have you ever had the experience at looking at lots of places all with four star ratings and you're pretty sure there's some you're gonna like a lot and others that maybe aren't quite so great but you're not sure how to tell which ones we've created a score called your match to help you find more places that you'll love your match uses machine learning to combine what Google knows about hundreds of millions of places with the information that I've added restaurants I've rated cuisines I've liked and places that I've been to if you cook into the match number you'll see reasons explaining why it's recommended just for you it's your personal score four places and our early testers are telling us that they love it now you can confidently pick the places that are best for you whether you're planning ahead or are on the go and need to make a quick decision right now thanks so much Sophia before you tab and the your match score are great examples of how we can help you stay in the know and choose places with confidence now another pain point we often hear from our users is that planning with others can be a real challenge so we wanted to make it easier to pick a place together here's how long press on any place to add it to a shortlist now I'm always up for ramen but I know my friends have lots of opinions of their own so I can add some more options to give them some choices when you've collected enough places that you like share the list with your friends to get their input too you can easily share with just a couple of taps on any platform that you prefer then my friends can add more places that they want to or just vote with one simple click so we can quickly choose a group favorite so now instead of copying and pasting a bunch of links and sending text back and forth decisions can be quick easy and fun this is just a glimpse of someone what's coming to maps on both Android and iOS later this summer and we see this as just the beginning of what Maps can do to help you make better decisions on-the-go and to experience the world in new ways from your local neighborhood to the far-flung corners of the world this discovery experience wouldn't be possible without small businesses because when we help people discover new places we're also helping local businesses be discovered by new customers these are businesses like the bakery in your neighborhood or the barber shop around the corner these businesses are the fabric of our communities and we're deeply committed to helping them succeed with Google every month we connect users to businesses nearby more than nine billion times including over a billion phone calls and three billion Direction requests to their stores in the last few months we've been adding even more tools for local businesses to communicate and engage with their customers in meaningful ways you can now see daily posts on events or offers from many of your favorite businesses and soon you'll be able to get updates from them the new for you stream - and when you're ready you can easily book an appointment or place an order with just one click we're always inspired to see how technology brings opportunities to everyone the reason we've invested over the last 13 years in mapping every road every building and every business is because it matters when we map the world community has come alive and opportunities arise in places we never would have thought possible and as computing evolves we're gonna keep challenging ourselves to think about new ways that we can help you get things done in the real world I'd like to invite a partner to stage to share how we're doing this both in Google Maps and beyond the cameras in our smartphones they connect us to the world around us in a very immediate way they help us save a moment capture memories and communicate but with advances in AI and computer vision that you heard sundar talk about we said what if the cameras can do more what if the cameras can help us answer questions questions like where am I going or what's that in front of me let me paint the familiar picture you exit the subway you're already running late for an appointment or a tech company conference that happens and then you're the you phone says head south on Market Street so what do you do one problem you have no idea which way is south so you look down at the phone you're looking at that blue dot on the map and just starting to walk to see if it's moving in the same direction if it's not you're turning around they've all been there so we asked ourselves well what if the camera can help us here our teams have been working really hard to combine the power of the camera the computer vision with Street View and maps to reimagine walking navigation so here's how it could look like in Google Maps let's take a look you open the camera you instantly you instantly know where you are no futzing with the phone you all the information on the map the street names the directions right there in front of you notice that you also see the map so that way you stay oriented you can start to see nearby places so you see what's around you and just for fun our team's been playing with an idea of adding a helpful guide like that there so that it can show you the way oh there she goes pretty cool now enabling these kinds of experiences though GPS alone doesn't cut it so that's why we've been working on what we call VPS visual positioning system that can estimate precise positioning and orientation one one way to think about the key insight here is just like you and I when we are in an unfamiliar place you're looking for visual landmarks looking for the storefront the building facades etc and it's the same idea VPS uses the visual features in the environment to do the same so that way we help you figure out exactly where you are and get you exactly where you need to go pretty cool so that's an example how we're using the camera to help you in maps but we think the camera can also help you do more with what you see that's why we started working on Google lense now people are already using it for all sorts of answers and especially when the questions are difficult to describe in words answers like oh that cute dog in the park that's a labradoodle or this building in Chicago is the Wrigley building and it's 425 feet tall or as my nine-year-old son says these days that's more than 60 Kevin Durant's now today lens is the capability in Google products like photos and the assistant but we're very excited that starting next week lens will be integrated right inside the camera app on the pixel the new LG g g7 and a lot more devices this way it makes it super easy for you to use lands on things right in front of you already in the camera very excited to see this now like voice vision is a fundamental shift in computing for us and it's a multi-year journey but we're already making a lot of progress so today I thought I'd show you three new features in google lens that can you give you more answers to more types of questions more quickly shall we take a look all right okay first lens can now recognize and understand words words are everywhere if you think about it traffic signs posters restaurant menus business cards but now with smart text selection you can now connect the words you see with the answers and actions you need so you can do things like copy and paste from the real world directly into your phone just like that or let's say you're looking at or you can pay turn a page of words into a page of answers so for example you're looking at a restaurant menu you can quickly tap around figure out every dish what it looks like what are all the ingredients etcetera by the way has a vegetarian good to know ratatouille the zucchini and tomatoes really cool now in these examples lens is not just understanding the shape of characters and the letters visually it sounds actually trying to get at the meaning in the context behind these words and that's where all the language understanding that you heard Scott talk about really comes in handy okay the next feature I want to talk about is called style match and the idea is this sometimes your question is not what's that exact thing instead your question is what are things like it you're at your friend's place you check out this trendy looking lamp and you want to know things that match that style and now lens can help you or if you see an outfit that catches your eye you can simply open the camera tap on any item and find out of course specific information like reviews itself of any specific item but you can also see all the things and browse around that match that style now there's two parts to it of course lens has to search through millions and millions of items but we kind of know how to do that search but the other part actually complicates things which is if there can be different textures shapes sizes angles lighting conditions etcetera so it's a tough technical problem but we're making a lot of progress here and really excited about it so the last thing I want to tell you about today is how we're making lens work in real time so as you saw in the style match example you start to see you open the camera and you start to see lens surface proactively all the information instantly and it even anchors that information to the things that you see now this kind of thing where it's sifting through billions of words phrases places things just in real-time to give you what you need not possible without machine learning so we are using both on device intelligence but also tapping into the power of cloud TP use which we announced last year at i/o to get this done really excited and in over time what we want to do is actually overlay the live results directly on top of things like storefronts street signs or a concert poster so you can simply point your phone at a concert poster of Charlie puth and the music video just starts to play just like that this is an example of how the camera is not just answering questions but it is putting the answers right where the questions are and it's very exciting so smart text selection style match real-time results all coming to lens in the next few weeks please check them out so those are some examples of how Google is applying AI in camera to get things done in the world around you when it comes to applying AI mapping and computer vision to solving problems in the real world well it doesn't get more real than self-driving cars so to tell you all about it please join me in welcoming the CEO of vamo john krafchick thank you hello everyone we're so delighted to join our friends at Google onstage here today and while this is my first time at Shoreline it actually isn't the first time for our self-driving cars you see back in 2009 and the parking lot just outside this theater some of the very first tests of self-driving technology took place it was right here we're a group of Google engineers roboticists and researchers set out on a crazy mission to prove that cars could actually drive themselves now back then most people thought self-driving cars were nothing more than science fiction but this dedicated team of dreamers believe that self-driving vehicles could make transportation safer easier and more accessible for everyone and so the Google self-driving car project was born now fast forward to 2018 in the Google self-driving car project is now its own independent alphabet company called way Moe and we've moved well beyond tinkering and research today wham-o is the only company in the world with a fleet of fully self-driving cars with no one in the driver's seat on public roads now members of the public in Phoenix Arizona have already started to experience some of these fully self-driving rides - let's have a look hey Denny one of self-driving are you ready it's pretty cool all of these people are part of what we call the way Moe early writer program where members of the public use our self-driving cars in their daily lives over the last year I've had a chance to talk to some of these early writers and their stories are actually pretty inspiring one of our early writers neha witnessed a tragic accident when she was just a young teen which scared her into never getting her driver's license but now she takes away Moe to work every day and there's Jim and Barbara who no longer have to worry about losing their ability to get around as they grow older then there's the Jackson family way Moe helps them all navigate their jam-packed schedules taking Kyla and Joseph to and from school practices and meet ups with friends so it's not about science fiction when we talk about building self-driving technology these are the people who are building it for in 2018 self-driving cars are already transforming the way they live and move so Phoenix will be the first stop for way Mo's driverless transportation service which is launching later this year soon everyone will be able to call way moe using our app and a fully self-driving car will pull up with no one in the driver's seat to whisk them away into their destination and that's just the beginning because that way Moe we're not just building a better car we're building a better driver and that driver can be used in all kinds of applications ride hailing but just personal cars connecting people to public transportation and we see our technology as an enabler for all of these different industries and we intend to partner with lots of different companies to make this self-driving future a reality for everyone now we can enable this future because of the breakthroughs and investments we've made in AI back in those early days Google was perhaps the only company in the world investing in both AI and self-driving technology at the same time so when Google started making major advances in machine learning with speech recognition computer vision image search and more Wayne was in a unique position to benefit for example back in 2013 we were looking for a breakthrough technology to help us with pedestrian detection luckily for us Google was already deploying a new technique called deep learning a type of machine learning that allows you to create neural networks with multiple layers to solve more complex problems so our self-driving engineers teamed up with researchers from the Google brain team and within a matter of months we reduced the error rate for detecting pedestrians by 100x that's right not a hundred percent about a hundred times and today today AI plays an even greater role in our self-driving system unlocking our ability to go truly self-driving now to tell you more about how machine learning makes way mo the safe and skilled driver that you see on the road today I'd like to introduce you to Demetri good morning everyone it's great to be here I want way mo AI touches every part of our system from perception to prediction to decision-making to mapping and so much more now to be a capable and safe driver our cars need a deep semantic understanding of the world around them our vehicles need to understand and classify objects interpret their movements reason about intent and predict what they will do in the future they need to understand how each object interacts with everything else and finally our cars need to use all that information to act in a safe and predictable manner so needless to say there's a lot that goes into building a self-driving car and today I want to tell you about two areas where AI has made a huge impact perception and prediction the first perception detecting and classifying objects is a key part of driving pedestrians a particular poses a unique challenge because the common all kinds of shapes postures and sizes so for example here's a construction worker picking out of a manhole with most of his body obscured here's a pedestrian crossing the street concealed by a blank of wood and here we have pedestrians who are dressed an inflatable dinosaur costumes and now we haven't taught our cars about the Jurassic period but can still classify done correctly we can detect and classify these pedestrians because we apply deep nets to a combination of sensor data a traditionally in computer vision neural networks are used just on camera images and video but our cars have a lot more than just cameras we also have lasers to measure distance and shapes of objects and radars to measure their speed and by applying machine learning to this combination of sensor data we can accurately detect pedestrians in all forms in real time a second area where machine learning has been incredibly powerful for way more is predicting how people will behave on the road now sometimes people do exactly what you expect them to and sometimes they don't take this example of a car running a red light unfortunately we see this kind of thing more than we'd like but let me break this down from the cars point of view our car is about to proceed straight through an intersection we have a clear green light and cross traffic is stopped with a red light but just as we enter the intersection all the way in the right corner we see a vehicle coming fast our models understand that this is unusual behavior for a vehicle that should be decelerating we predict the car will run the red light so we preemptively slowed down which you can see here with this red fence and this gives the red light runner room to pass in front of us while it barely avoids hitting another vehicle now we can detect this kind of anomaly because we've trained our ML models using lots of examples today our fleet has self driven more than 6 million miles on public roads which means we've seen hundreds of millions of real-world interactions to put that in perspective we drive more miles each day than the average American tribes in the year now it takes more than Google good algorithms to build a self-driving car we'll send you really powerful infrastructure and at--we mo we is the tensorflow ecosystem and Google's data centers including TP use to train our neural networks and with TP use we can now train our Nets up to 15 times more efficiently we also use this powerful infrastructure to validate our models in simulation and in this virtual world we're driving the equivalent of 25,000 cars all day every day all told we've driven more than five billion miles and simulation and with this kind of scale both in training and validation of our models we can quickly and efficiently teach our cars new skills and one skin skill we started to tackle is self-driving in difficult weather such as snow as you see here and today for the first time I want to show you behind the scenes look at what it's like for our cars to self-driving snow this is what our car sees before we apply any filtering now driving the snowstorm can be tough because snowflakes can create a lot of noise for our sensors but when we apply machine learning to this data this is what our car sees we can clearly identify each of these vehicles even through all of the sensor noise and the quicker we can unlock these types of advanced capabilities the quicker we can bring ourselves out in cars to more cities around the world into a city near you now we can't wait to make our self-driving cars available to more people moving us closer to a future where roads are safer easier and more accessible for everyone thanks everyone now please join me in welcoming back in the morning session thanks Demetri it's a great reminder of how AI can play a role in helping people in new ways all the time I started at Google as an engineer as an engineering intern almost 19 years ago and what struck me from almost the very first day was the commitment to push the boundaries on what was possible with technology combined with a deep focus on building products that had a real impact on people's lives and as the years have passed I've seen time and again who technology can play a really transformative role from the earliest days of things like search and maps to new experiences like the Google assistant as I look at the Google of today I see those same early values alive and well we continue to work hard together with all of you to build products for everyone and products that matter we constantly aspire to raise the bar for ourselves even higher and to contribute to the world into society in a responsible way now we know that to truly build for everyone we need lots of perspectives in the mix and so that's why we brought an i/o this year to include an even wider range of voices we've invited additional speakers over the next three days to talk to you all about the broader role that technology can play in everything from promoting digital well-being to empowering NGOs to achieve their missions along with of course the hundreds of technical talks that you've come to expect from us at i/o and that we hope you can enjoy and learn from as well welcome to i/o 2018 please enjoy and I hope you all find some inspiration in the next few days to keep building good things for everyone thank you well welcome back to see next live coverage of Google i/os the Developers Conference and if she's just joining us I'm still a as actor so you're still Vanessa handle Rihanna and you're still Patrick Holland and we had seen so many things in this long long presentation from Google I'm going to do a quick rundown we've got a recap they got usages for AI in the medical field accessibility Gmail smart compose google photos with smart actions google offers suggestions on how to fix photos there and there's just a lot to go through fact like what was your favorite announcement out of the hours and hours we just saw there's actually a few but the one that these pops in my mind is that a our navigation of Google Maps that they could have a little Fox point me in the right direction of how to get to Starbucks or wherever I'm looking at he has tremendous that was truly crazy the idea what we were seeing so this a r2 if you somehow missed it this had a visual of you hold your camera up to the to the real world you'd have an overlay of the actual map and you'd have directions overlaid with the image that the camera is seeing so instead of you looking down you're like well is that Jones in Beach no that's Jones and Beach and it can tell I really let thought that was pretty cool and the Fox being your guide you're following somebody yeah joke that might cause car accidents because I'm trying to follow the Fox turning around the corner Fox well yeah never mind yeah it Roger the South Park episode when they have the game to follow the dragon I don't know but it goes like oh I gotta follow the Fox and like you just you never catch the Fox could be the problem I think actually it's really neat but it is also weird cuz now does that mean we're gonna see a lot of people walking around with their phones in front of their faces for that though because at least you're aware of your surroundings rather than just being immersed in your phone because at least yours you are seeing what's around you through the through the camera itself and you're also seeing a fox and you're also seeing a fox so maybe might be delusional as well but you know at least you're aware of incoming traffic versus just being looking looking facedown looking at your phone and walking into incoming traffic but maybe we see lots of gimmicks in the AR and VR this is truly a neat and it use case for it and if it works as advertised that would be a lot of definitely handset a wearable glasses kind of thing because that's really what you would really want to see come the old Google Goggles concept yeah I had turned by turn and everything but this overlay could be really useful if they can apply it to another kind of wearable one day it was ahead of its time I know you've had we've had it on our top five list of Google failures but it was just ahead of its time there wasn't the infrastructure built in to actually make that succeed so no no it's a time to resurface the Google glass right what was your favorite pen essay so I was wowed at the beginning I'm a sucker and at first when I wouldn't they were talking about the medical field and the googly eye or the AI translating Morse code I was you know getting emotional there as I'm sure they wanted me to but I really like the how AI is gonna be used in the medical field and I think that's kind of a boring but very practical way that it can be used and it right now in just to be able to prevent illnesses before they arise that's a great boring at all because it's supposed to be something somewhat supplementing the doctors that are working because there's all these reports that doctors being overworked constantly and there's actively to bad decision making if you have the help of an AI that can predict things and symptoms of a patient that might be helpful to kind of let the doctors kind of decompress a little bit but then again they're gonna use their best judgment because AI is not infallible well I think about like right now if you go on WebMD and enter any kind of thing it's always like oh you might have this little like light Ilham ailment or you might have cancer it's like it's so there's no extremes in the heavy rain yeah and having an identification that could the one that I was impressed with was that you could tell it like your cardiovascular health based on the quality of your eye and I mean and I think what I liked about it is it's an example where AI is not gonna take jobs but it's gonna enhance the jobs are that are already there like you said a lot of the doctors are overworked and so it's not gonna take the role of the doctor but it's gonna it's gonna analyze all that my new shed detail that the doctor's not gonna have to so that he can focus on the big picture stuff and also I think it also if you're on a treatment with a doctor it can help you stay on track better let you know when you're getting off track or let the doctor or the nurse practitioner know that ok sticking to this program or how to that could be really cool a lot of stuff reminds me of guys I'm sorry well that reminds me of what IBM's Watson can do and basically taking all this data putting it together and giving it as useful information I believe Watson could also be used for the customer service and other kind of Harvard you know thought process stuff then just Oba turning left it's like now what's this guy have to come back for me talked about a lot of AI stuff and AR stuff what were you wowed with Google lends probably was pretty freaking awesome I was just wow we were watching I'm swearing a bit about how exciting it was because it just looked amazing the idea that you could hold up your phone and get all this real-time data we were playing around with bixby vision to see how it compared to bixby vision not super and if google lens works the way the demos worked it would be really intriguing to be able to find data out about pretty much anything you can see that was yes I've ever liked about it was like last year we saw google lens you hold it up to it like a landmark it might identify how tall the building is or what the building is but now I can hold it up to like a sheet of words and it would understand like why think the demo was sushi and it actually show you what that sir she was so you like oh that's what I'm eating that's great you know and the copy-paste feature where you could copy text from the real world into the phone that was mind-blowing and and we were you are saying that a lot of the features are similar to things we've already seen Bigsby vision or the style watch was similar to what Amazon is yeah but sorry to cut you off three in the real world we have Scott Stein who is at Google i/o right now he's in the real world it's not wearing weird visors or anything Scott how's it going over there it's seven good developers can extend up reuse elements of Microsoft how was the crowd after the event worth wikibook pumped up or was it kind of subdued the obsess they didn't want to get one are you how are you feeling are you pumped or are you kind of sad that there's no actual hardware that you're gonna be looking at after not a single mention of where OS and AR did emerge please become Joe Belfiore so it's pretty interesting we meet a lot of things on but when it comes we are packed you know stuff here surprising way things and video we can come back in just a second because if you're hearing this and you're like hey it's Joe Belfiore from Microsoft showing up just randomly at Google IO that's not happening that would have been pretty freaking cool he just walks out but stretch case of that Fox that's not what's going on he might be like hey wait a minute we had a lot of that stuff on Windows Phone it was super seamless we could just give you the information you wanted and a lot of the stuff with Android P and I was like you know trying to come up with something you know funny about Android P but P sounds like it's really for passive Android seems like it's just falling way back kind of relaxing and we'll get back to that in a second Scott I'll be back yes we're back with Scott no idea no we're good we're good yes we're good sorry continue yeah so I don't know I don't know was here what were you most excited about from the presentation what stood out in your mind I think I like what you guys were saying I think the future of where AR is going and Google lines is definitely driving that I think you need to have real-time they are and that's what Google lens is really focusing on so to speak but the you know that's the key to any sort of headset that's the key to where computer vision is going that's the key to where smart cameras are going you know you transition from that in two-way mo and cars everything is using cameras did you smarter ai processing on the fly so all these things dovetail Maps is really interesting because I use maps for search and recommendations all the time so I think the ability for that to live recommend is great I think all of the robocalls stuff involving assistant is really creepy I think it's I think it's problematic but I think it's definitely good for Google insofar as they're gonna keep researching and developing natural language processing in AI and so that's part of it right and you know as far as the Android P developments for managing your life and being and managing things with machine learning I guess we'll see right it's either going to be really good at that or maybe not so great it's very hard to tell we've heard over the years many times how a AI and machine learning are going to improve our lives and the proof is in the pudding with that as far as like how you know that's a I'm skeptical but I am skeptical because III think that part is a little harder to figure out I think when you look at AI providing more exciting developments better language processing things that can pluck out of your camera that that's really cool stuff so a lot of that AR stuff that was just thinking about what kind of impact you think that's gonna have on battery life on these devices because just because Android their claim that androids going to be really battery efficient do you think that it's possible to be using all these augmented reality stuff without sacrificing tons of battery life no I think it's gonna use a lot of battery life and you know it's probably why it only be used sparingly you bring it up once in a while you know I think the way I use they are right now it's like a little bit at a time and that's also a big reason it's a good point it's why you don't see a our headsets that are doing that because it's extremely battery intensive and processing intensive it's why Apple and Google have had to do this more on phones I think because you have better processors and bigger batteries that can drive that but it down the road I think the idea is that becomes more efficient something you could wear on you something you could do like that but I think it's an exciting development but yeah like how useful is it all going to be to be continued let me ask one more question duplex is duplex creepy or not creepy or helpful which would create you know it's a hundred percent creepy this is a completely creepy thing this is not there's not something that a lot of people are gonna want to get a phone call from I don't think and while it could be useful for you the person I think the real the question to me is how well does that work in the wild if it does great but you don't want to like increase the amount of robocalls in the world I I think it would be great for assistance for if you have a situation where you're not easily able in your life to make phone calls or to go do things and that's that that could be great you know do you if you could be making the phone call yourself then make the phone call yourself if it's a way of getting ahead in line to make the call so you don't have to deal with it then is everyone going to use that and then it's like getting tickets where you're just going to game in the system it's weird it's definitely weird but it's where I mean eventually box talking the Box natural language AI getting better you know that's what's gonna have to happen both your phones for robotics for anything that you're imagining you know look your little home getting smarter at talking to you the better it gets to talking to other people the better it's gonna get a talking to you which is creepy and awesome at the same time but with the way the what you mentioned exactly we're gonna have BOTS to communicating with bots and we're used to seeing it on the business front where we get the bots calls but now I like the fact that we can turkey with duplex we could kind of turn the tables and robo call the businesses I mean obviously there's a lot of privacy issues a lot of downsides to this as you were saying but the good thing is at least in my regards is that now we can now we can kind of pull it and pull what the businesses we're doing to us with robo calls to them and then just have robots talking to each other and not have to deal with it except for John John Legend gladly be Robo calling himself John Legend phone call mining himself to make a restaurant reservation and and on live the era of celebrity voice assistance has begun to begun the assistant voice wars have I want to know when the first time you're gonna have you're gonna call a restaurant claiming to be that person with that with the voice hi can I I'm John Legend I'd like a reservation for five at five hi I'm Weird Al Yankovic I'd like to me I'd like to make lunch reservations for Scott Stein just like lots of polka music so I think the real Scott Stein's gonna check out some other stuff at i/o sit on the ground there thanks a lot for all your insights that's far go get something to eat and then find something to play with I mean really dive around go check out the sandbox everything's playground themed there find that teepee you go on a teepee you hunt we're just a teepee home great I owe teepee Highness begun I think you think of the bathroom actually I probably need it possible let's go back to pee why not still doesn't have a name you know they don't really usually give out the name at Google i/o which is disappointing but they aren't giving up the beta and lots of beta yet as of today so there's a ton of new features like that's leaked we saw earlier today it looks like it was legitimate we saw a bunch of gestures gesture support at this point some redesigns to that app drawer which I thought was kind of neat yeah when you slide up you can have four apps you might be using and actions you might actually want to do at that time or you're gonna work out now you're gonna call your spouse that kind of intuitiveness is coming to the operating system I'm really kind of surprised that it's not like bells and whistles and it's amazing it's all about helping you get information now whether that's creepy or not because you've fed Google all this information and paying attention I kind of like the convenience factor well yes and no because then okay fine it is helping you make decisions but at what point is it gonna start influencing your decisions you know like how do I know that I would have texted this person was it because Google suggests it or was it because I wanted to actually text this person so how do we draw the line are you afraid that you will lose your free will like this is my will power of suggestion it's what we were dealing with with Facebook right it's like at what point can they predict your what you're about to do and at what point are you doing that because they predicted it so to me it's a little bit freaky can I go the other up to where it's like predictive text on your keyboard where it's like no I didn't mean to I don't want that app right now I want the other app you know where it's it might just be more of a speed bump until it till it learns really your preferences in your habits yeah sure they'll be a learning curve for sure but and then how are people gonna like build on top of that too because very few filmmakers actually keep the Android as a pure clean version of Android it was that on top of that like I'm wondering how some of that will be manipulated by a third party oh you somewhere horrible exactly exactly yeah that's basically as your preference is perhaps it was interesting the contrast of all these new features that are gonna make you engage with your phone more and then they have the digital well-being section where it's helping you decide I think I thought it was very cool it's just that you're getting the contrast of this feature that's gonna help you or make you engage more with your phone and then their way to disconnect so at least they're giving us the option to get disconnect and I I I thought it was cool I would I would actually set limit I limit on myself for the daily limits on the apps and I know there's apps that do that for you already but I think it's a good native way to kind of control yourself and the dashboard will tell you how how you're using the different apps and you're you're spending you know 40 percent of your time in Gmail maybe that's a bad thing do you think that's actually gonna influence I think you think go to my boss like hey I'm spending 50 percent of my time in Gmail I've got an email me less at work you know look I got proof of it um I think that will because I think it's kind of like we've seen with battery life on apps for a while now-like which after using most of your battery life and that tells you a lot and a lot of time I look I'm like Holy Smoke I didn't realize this on Facebook that much or Holy Smoke I didn't realize I was on snapchat that much Holy See Holy Smoke about what we did in to get I mean we talked a little bit about all the things we got but seems like there was a supreme lack of consumer hardware yes the TPU 3.0 was introduced you cannot wait to get that pipe out to your children no I couldn't no no new home versions where where was where where I was where you have to ask like that nothing new phone stuff no new camera stuff a lot of these products they've they've been launching outside of events you know smaller stuff like the clips and I think of like the VR 180 stuff but yeah we didn't see any actual hardware or upgrades to existing hardware yeah when's the last time we got a Google home update besides the big ones well I mean it services why is there upgrading of the internal is essentially yeah it'll start to software I've been also thinking that there was a rumor that YouTube remix would show up and be this new music service and may be introduced today that did not happen it was to eat up Google Play Music which I'm all for go ahead just pick one I'm happy well I know before that we were talking with stuff that we were hoping for like how do you feel now with AI and how that integrates into the system and do you think it's going to be that consistent assistant I don't know I think with all the features they talked about with AI and assistant all the different versions of assistants because you'll see it on a smart display you'll see it on your watch you'll see it on your phone and who knows where else I'm hoping that the experience is consistent but we've got to see how that plays out over time because it's it's still unknown I think they are really trying and they they're going all in the when they said assistant launched two years ago that was it was absurd like wait in two years you got this good yeah that quickly and series just you know like in the back corner crying because that thing you know thanks well it makes sense they Google has the information to make this happen they have the the user data to make this kind of artificial intelligence happen so I'm glad they're doing something about it but it really does seem like the artificial intelligence was the predominant theme of this conference it's the it's the thread that weaves everything together and whether or not that's going to equal a more consistent assistant I'm not sure but it's definitely we're definitely starting to see it intertwined in every different sector that Google touches even way Moe which is not part of Google was showing how machine learning is helping the automated vehicles avoid crashes and drive it so in certain weather conditions so that to me it seemed a little bit all over the place but that was the unifying thing that joined everything today you could have done a drinking game every time they said AI or machine learning it's like it would have been we stayed in the first 20 minutes there was just so much of it and I think that is to Google strength one of the reasons they have a lot of data on us but you know the worst always have the ethical dilemma is that the right way to go or is the way apples going with protecting your data good but also does that does that limit the functionality something like Siri I don't know but we all are really excited about what we see a goal assistance so I think you're going the right way with it so far there was one minor hardware announcement I did forget about this the smart displays that were announced already at CES are coming in July so if you really really want a smart display with Google on it you could have it I think it's strange though that as far as I know you can't use your chromecast the same way you can't just say hey hey Google or yo Google which is a new one you could say yo Google put this on my television other than getting YouTube videos that's what the weather once and I got a YouTube video of some random thing call the weather and I don't know what you would area in the world it was in or what but it wasn't relevant to me at the time was it nice weather though for three so it's all those old weather very old weather wedded one an all-weather old weather though I guess jeez what about we have Lexie on the phone she's gonna kind of give us a insights of what's going on and the in the pen right now she's in the sandbox in the sandbox she's hey Lexie hey guys can you hear me we can hear you out here tell us what's going on excellent um I am in the middle of this door I'm gonna call it the Thunderdome because it's full of a lot of the things that were talked about in the keynote today so it's just being opened up to media analysis a couple of other journalists and press walking around this is all about Android and every single thing that they're doing on the platform so there's a lot of stuff here for developers I've literally just walked into this space so I'll kind of show you and tell you what I know when I see it so I'm gonna flip the camera around and give you a bit of an idea of what we can see all right here we go let's start off by walking to some Android key demos now this is showing off the app actions this is what they spoke about in the keynote I'll just take a look and see if anything's working hi how are you could you show me some actions I'm just getting a quick rundown on some of the live actions happening here in Android pay so simple stem of course is you open up the launcher and you see not just critical applications but you also see predicted actions and this is suggesting that I should you know navigate to work and this is suggesting that I listen to today's because it's on music demo which is if I search for lift not only do I see search suggestion but I also sees what if all the slices that lift populates it says hey you want to take a look home do you want take a lift to work and so on oh I say so this is exactly what we just saw in the keynote exact can you show me some of the gestures as well in Android is this running Android P right now we have to go to the other side okay guys I got to a hat I got so ahead of myself I was like I wouldn't see actions okay I want to see gestures as well all right I'm gonna I'm gonna try and flip around and find you guys find you guys some gestures all right it's a lot of developers stuff here talking about action and contact centric stuff I don't want to go too much into that I want to try and find the gestures all right all right here we go oh this is looking promising okay this is I don't know exactly this is hi you're alive on CNET can you help me find Android he gestures I really want to see how these work oh you can't just show me any justice on the horn oh okay oh I was denied I can't see any gestures yes I'm back yeah I'm gonna find it guys I'm gonna find it I'm determined all right here we go we are going see this is what happens when you do a live cross with me you see people waving and you see me discovering everything as you do okay so there's just a lot of demo stations set up here and then there's also a lot of where OS ah exclusive press access yes that is why that is why so there's a bunch of other journalists in the room here too in indeed indeed it was and did it was so this is a bunch of different watches that so Android wear OS is on and we didn't really see anything in the keynote about this so I'm not entirely sure of what they're gonna be demoing here it's not that much attention paid here there's a beautiful looking display but no other real kind of demos running I mean I can go and start playing with the phones but from the keen eye it doesn't sound like there's too much news so I don't know if we want to spend too much time there but they have I think they're just showcasing what how many watches are running okay I see exactly from what I see here is not sure yeah that's true this is an Android TV stuff over here and then we switch around and we see some of some indie games over here as well it looks like they're showcasing a lot of things that they didn't mention on the kokino well that's usually the case so if we think about kind of who is here the intended audience it's all about developers it's all about people building for Android as the platform so not necessarily going to show every single thing that's in the keynote there's the stuff that's available right now and as we heard lots of features are coming soon they're obviously not able to be rolled out just yet so I was hoping we have a little few more sneak peeks I'm sure there's a lot of I mean we wanted to look at walls of code I mean I mean we can do you're gonna see some walls of code I mean I'm trying to flip the camera now let's take a look I mean it you know there we go ha ha that's what it's for it's developers here well and outside there's also some Android auto stuff too there's a couple of cars and if you can see out here just quickly lots of cars with Android auto right any of the screens any of the screens with the Google home with a Google assistant on them sorry that's possibly that's possibly here this might not be the right term there are several domes set up so I'm gonna go and try and find all the right ones this is the one that we were showing into first but this undoubtedly so much more this is this is a huge it's like a music festival there's so many options here and so many alright awesome wow thanks final thoughts that's my own types reactions to this giant event Vanessa well the one thing we didn't talk about that was missing as well was the privacy and all this and how the the Google assistant and just AI in general for Google how how we're gonna have control over that whether or not we're gonna have control over that is this opt-in is this opt-out I think they vaguely mentioned some things that were opt-in but they didn't really mention any more security features for Android P that's for certain and they didn't they didn't say how they were gonna make sure that this kind of technology is not going to be abused and so I'm hoping that they are as they go forward and moving into this direction and get get garnering all this information about us including you know medical stuff that they do have a game plan of how they're gonna keep it safe as well so that's something that we didn't see that may be even more important than the where OS that we didn't see so I just thought I'd mention that not necessarily my favorite but that was missing when they started to send report I didn't mention like the responsibility I had a sense of gravitas when it came to this level responsibility with all this data and so far Google's been safe there's been like no crazy breaches not like yes not going away and like you know Yahoo level the mess that's happened in the past and how long can that possibly continue especially as they get more and more data what about you Patrick I think it's just another iteration where years ago we would see Google kind of being you know very siloed with all the things they did but here we see yet another year like last year where they're integrating their services they're integrating the looks of things they're integrating their AI they're integrating the AR and I think the things are coming off with are very compelling features and softer than I'm excited about I you know I think the question of privacy is always there but at the end of the day it's also just trying the stuff out in real life it's trying that AR navigation out and seeing how it actually works it's trying that Google and stuff and significant actually identify like an outfit and do that and so I'm excited to try all these things I'm just really hoping all of it works as well as we saw in the demos in this very well produced you know keynote because you know if you're holding up a screen and it doesn't work it's not gonna be as fun and even more frustration you get with these devices the more pain points you know I don't want to use this technology and you won't pick it up again if it doesn't work the first few times well I mean I think not to go back to Apple Siri but I think that was it didn't work really well out of the box and a lot of people have that bad taste in mouth still today and I think it's the same thing to be said about a lot of things you saw today but it does look very promising the duplex thing borderline creepy but that's not a thing that's coming out quite we saw a good mix of things that we can look forward to in the future and things that we're gonna be available rather readily available to users in the coming weeks so I think they they played it well in terms of offering something that we can use right away and then giving us a look of what they're planning planning ahead so hopefully it all works when it does get released as you mentioned I'm really hoping this allows me to have the laziest life possible yes it's creepy yes they're following everything I'm doing but well so is the NSA well you know what the conversation doesn't really stop here because you are going to continue this I will never stop talking about this on alphabet cities to show this coming soon if you don't know about it gonna cover everything do with alphabet which and they they own Google and they own way no way most feature today at the keynote itself and obviously Google owns tons of stuff like Android YouTube Google home Nest's now and all kinds of fun stuff so thanks for getting that plug does that mean like you're kind of like the mayor or is I like you're the host the mayor the guy down there gonna tour bus I'd favorite commerce guy Chamber of Commerce uh I don't have a sash I don't have a sash you totally did that okay maybe it's not we have so tune in would see if I have astronaut and amalaki we have now right smart smart I hashed I worked I also I just wanted to mention before we go thank you to our you know a tweet at Twitter seen it live Charles Leroy Smith just wanted to know was wondering about Android P we didn't discuss what the P stands for we kind of did he thinks he said a image of a pretzel guess we didn't say our get 194 what howdy 400 K French port my reel won't probably 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