Google’s AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations

google i/o At Google I/O this week, the Chocolate Factory argued for its AI supremacy, making the case with benchmark-topping machine learning models, developer tools, and a few promising products.

How it might recoup the billions it is spending to build out AI infrastructure was left to the imagination.

There were a few glimmers of brilliance. Real-time language translation in Google Meet is great. It’s a vision of the Star Trek future many of us hope for, as opposed to the Torment Nexus…