Google just wrapped up its 2018 I/O keynote, and the event was full of exciting news. CEO Sundar Pichai recognizes that the tech industry must always be held accountable for the tools and services it creates. Then came a wave of exciting good news. Android P Beta released. John Legend’s voice will be added to Google Assistant. Gmail can write its own emails almost entirely. AI is always a big theme.

ANDROID P

Goodbye, Android three-button navigation. Hello, Android gestures. The Android P update far exceeded our expectations. It has a whole new gesture. Key interactions like changing apps can now be done with iPhone X gestures. There’s also a new data panel that clearly shows “how you spend your time on the device, including time spent in apps, how many times you unlock the phone and the number of notifications you receive.” To save you from your cell phone addiction.

Android P will be available later this summer, but the beta version released today is only available on Google, Essential, Sony, Nokia and other smartphones.

A new version of Google’s Assistant

Google Assistant gets more different voices. In addition to the original sounds you may be familiar with, users can choose from six additional natural sounds. The voice of John Legend, the nine-time Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter and pianist, will also be added to Google Assistant later this year.

Google Duplex

Perhaps the most jaw-dropping moment of today’s keynote came when Sundar Pichai played back a recording of Google Assistant calling a hair salon and having a legitimate conversation during an appointment, with Google Assistant and the salon staff talking to each other. Google Assistant didn’t have any robo-voice cues, and salon employees didn’t realize they were talking to the AI.

Smart displays with Google’s smart Assistant will be available this summer

Amazon’s Echo Show is about to face competition from devices running Google software. Google announced that the first smart display with Google Assistant built into it will begin shipping in July. An onstage demonstration showed that the monitor was using Jimmy Kimmel’s live YouTube TV feed as an example of what Google was offering, an example that Amazon’s Echo Show couldn’t.

Gmail can now draft its own emails

Google is expanding its useful smart reply feature to suggest complete sentences as you type. And came up with an even more ambitious idea: Smart Compose. Smart Compose uses AI “to help you write emails from scratch, faster”. Does having Gmail automatically create emails sound scary? Don’t worry. It’s a long way to go. Smart Compose will be available to consumers first in the coming weeks, with G Suite users waiting a few months.

Google Maps is becoming more social and following YELP

Maps is growing into a comprehensive social experience that fits right in with Yelp and Foursquare. The new TAB lets you view new restaurants and businesses that are popular among other users by specific neighborhood. You can even sync restaurant information with friends in real time and keep an electronic menu of restaurants where you eat.

Google Maps has added augmented reality

Point your camera in one direction and Google will pair the AI with street View data to give you an interactive AR turning experience. There’s even a cute little fox to help you keep things smooth.

Google Photos makes organizing photos smarter

Google Photos has added a number of new features, such as the ability to separate the subject from the background in the photo background and pop up colors or change the background to black and white. Photos can now also color your old photos, even if they didn’t start with color. Both features use AI. When you’re just looking at photos in your album, it analyzes your photos and suggests quick photo fixes.

Google News is now being curated by AI

All news in Google News is now supported primarily by AI. The company says it uses artificial intelligence to analyze all the content being posted on the Web at any given time and organize all those articles, videos and other content into storylines. It finds things you might be interested in and puts them in your news list. In addition to the first time, the news will also provide a series of relevant articles recommended.

Google Lens allows you to copy text from the real world into your phone

This is something Google has shown before, and now it sounds like it’s fully available, which is actually Google Lens. You can point your phone’s camera at real-world text, such as a written Wi-Fi password, and then grab the text in an image and paste it into a text field on your smartphone (OCR Image Extract Text).

While you’re shopping. Google Lens is still not perfect for identifying precise clothing items, but Google thinks it can get close enough. The company is rolling out a new “style matching” feature that scans an item the camera is pointing at and then pops up with a link to buy about that item.

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