Kicking off the show at its hardware launch, Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted the shift from mobile to artificial intelligence that allowed for two-way conversation and natural dialogue. He described Google’s desire to build an ‘individual Google’ for each user before detailing some interesting AI and machine learning projects, including image recognition, language translation, and text-to-speech. Each of these improves Google’s already impressive Assistant and furthers the goal to create individualized search experiences for each user. Pixel and Pixel XL Senior Vice President Rick Osterloh took to the stage following Pichai to announce to new mobile devices carrying the Pixel name.…

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