By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2025-11-16 17:00:00
I’m not really a huge fan of modern AI. For the past couple of years, it’s just been shoved into everything online, and usually not for the better. Google, though, has really hit its stride lately in finding incredible, out-of-the-box ways to use AI to just make things better, and there are a couple of key examples of this.
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Google has been an AI company since before the ChatGPT era reinvented the term “AI” to simply refer to large language models (LLMs). The clever Android and Google features you loved a decade ago? Those were machine learning, which preceded the tools we have today. After OpenAI jumped the gun with the release of ChatGPT, the smash hit popularity of that product led to Google playing a huge game of catch-up…
