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Everything Google revealed at I/O 2018
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Everything Google
revealed at I/O 2018
Google leaned heavily into machine learning and personalization
during its keynote.
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oogle always pulls out the stops for the keynote
at its annual I/O developer conference, and
this year was no exception. I/O 2018 lacked the
flashy flagship hardware that defined previous keynotes
– nary a new Chromebook, Pixel, or Google Home
could be found – but it still managed to shine, thanks
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to some serious improvements to the software and
services underlying the entire Google ecosystem.
Hardware is nothing without software that tells
it what to do, after all. And at I/O 2018, Google’s
software was focused squarely on making the
Internet more about you through the power of machine
learning. Let’s dig in.
Gmail Smart Compose
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked things off with
Smart Compose, which is basically Gmail’s Smart Reply
cranked to 11. Whereas Smart Reply would scan your
emails and intelligently offer buttons with quick one-
click responses, Smart Compose uses AI to suggest
complete sentences as you’re drafting an email. As
you type, you’ll see suggestions appear in faded grey
text; clicking Tab uses the suggestion.
“Smart Compose helps save you time by cutting
back on repetitive writing, while reducing the
chance of spelling and grammatical errors,” Google
revealed. “It can even suggest relevant contextual
phrases. For example, if it’s Friday it may suggest
‘Have a great weekend’ as a closing phrase.”
Smart Compose sounds like a serious timesaver
if it’s as effective in reality as it is in concept.
Google Photos
Machine learning is making Google Photos more useful
in the coming months, too. While you’re looking at
an image in the coming weeks, you might see new
prompts offering to fix the brightness of an image, or
fade the background to black to make the star of the
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