That wasn't Google I/O -- it was Google AI

At Google in 2023, it seems pretty clear that AI itself now is the core product. As my colleague Melissa Heikkilä put it in her report on the company's efforts: Google is throwing generative AI at everything. The company made this point in one demo after another, all morning long. A Gmail demo showed how generative AI can compose an elaborate email to an airline to help you get a refund. The new Magic Editor in Google Photos will not only remove unwanted elements but reposition people and objects in photos, make the sky brighter and bluer, and then adjust the lighting in the photo so that all that doctoring looks natural.