Reed Albergotti

It went well.

I like that, actually.

It certainly feels like we're coming out of the...

constrained evolutionary phase that was the chatbot.

And for me, it feels like we're in this moment where it's very, very exciting.

I mean, you mentioned in the intro that

I get up in the morning obsessed with this idea of human machine soul energy, and it feels like we're in this really humanizing moment that the technology's got to the point where now the computer can come to us on our terms like never before.

You know, after decades of us having to contort to go to the computer on its terms, it can...

morph and take the form of a collaborative partner which is another way of saying agents you you will have heard the word agents a lot for me i've never heard it before for me what an agent is is this collaborative partner that that meets you where you're at in what feels like a very organic very human way and that's a

That's a massive unlock, I think, for the relationship between human and technology.

So what we do in labs is we, the way we put it is we discover and deliver new AI products that serve Google's mission.

So, you know, we look at the

new capabilities that are brewing in GDM in particular, in terms of the model capabilities.

GDM is Google DeepMind.

Google DeepMind.

And then we, from a very user-centric perspective, look for opportunities to bring those capabilities to bear in ways that serve Google's mission, meaning in ways that are useful in people's lives.

And

it does seem that we're in this moment now where the capabilities are at the point where we can really usefully enhance a lot of activities that humans value.

And I like thinking about it that way around.

Google's uniquely, amongst the tech companies,