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At Google's Mountain View headquarters earlier this month week, a man clad in a rainbow-hued dressing gown emerged from a giant coffee cup to give a vibrant if somewhat surreal demonstration of the company's latest achievements in generative AI.

At Google's Mountain View headquarters earlier this month week, a man clad in a rainbow-hued dressing gown emerged from a giant coffee cup to give a vibrant if somewhat surreal demonstration of the company's latest achievements in generative AI.At the I/O event, electronic musician and YouTuber Marc Rebillet tinkered with an AI music tool that can generate synced tracks based on prompts like 'viola' and '808 hip-hop beat'.

But to build AI assistants that the public wants to use, 'the killer feature is speed', according to technology analyst Ben Thompson, who writes the influential industry newsletter Stratechery.'When you cross the threshold of speed and latency, that's when it's fun. The delight... and playfulness when you're getting that immediate feedback is so different than sitting around waiting... then it's like a parlour trick,' he said on the podcast Sharp Tech.

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