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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

Google DeepMind·Adrien Baranes and Rob Marchant·6 months ago
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We are developing more seamless, intuitive ways to collaborate with AI

The mouse pointer has been a constant companion on computer screens, across every website, document and workflow. Despite how technologies have changed, the pointer has barely evolved in more than half a century.

We’ve been exploring new AI-powered capabilities to help the pointer not only understand what it’s pointing at, but also why it matters to the user.

Our goal is to address a common frustration: because a typical AI tool lives in its own window, users need to drag their world into it. We want the opposite: intuitive AI that meets users across all the tools they use, without interrupting their flow. For example, imagine pointing to an image of a building, and requesting “Show me directions”.…

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