Google Is Racing to Bring More AI to Android

In the days leading up to its annual software conference, Google executives were unusually excited about … wallpaper. Wallpaper that's generated by artificial intelligence after tapping a few prompts on your phone screen. "Generative AI" is the key phrase here. It's the category of artificial intelligence that tech companies both big and small are hanging their futures on right now. Alphabet-owned Google is one of the pioneers in this space; as Google executives like to remind people, the "T" in OpenAI's ChatGPT actually refers to transformer technology that Google introduced back in 2017. And Google has been working on human-like chatbot technology for years.