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Opinion: Google is building an AI future, but not for you and me

The difference between the real world and the AI world is a flight of a dozen stairs.

In my basement office, I listened to what Google presented at Google I/O. I heard executives talk about search, Android, and Project Astra: a future multi-modal ‘universal agent’ that can understand audio and video, built around versions of Gemini both large and small. One million tokens is a big deal, right?

I guess. But to whom?

What I heard at Google I/O was a future that is still in the

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