If You Want to Glimpse the Power of AI, Play These Games

Google made one thing abundantly clear at this week's big I/O developer conference: It is an AI-first company now. The brass spent hours explaining how artificial intelligence will touch every product--Google Lens! But Google already offers a simple, ridiculously fun way of understanding what this future holds: games. The AI Experiments Program is a collection of interactive AI projects designed to show off the creative capacity of machines--like AI Duet, a piano that automatically harmonizes with the notes the user plays, and Bird Sounds, a visual map that groups bird calls based on their frequency. Some are fun, even absurd, while others explain machine learning.