Google Assistant was launched 6 years ago. Probably the most AI that Google has inflicted upon the general public since then is Waymo One. Other recent launches include the thing that automatically fills in your formulas in Google Sheets. Also DeepMind's WaveNet text-to-speech. Then there's fancy stuff like Project Relate that will train a speech-to-text model individually for disabled users[1].
But mostly the ML stuff is silently launched behind the scenes. And you slowly become inured to astonishing feats of machine learning like being able to translate spoken Chinese to English text on your mobile, and cars that drive themselves, and the fact that you can search your photos for "toy lizard" and that actually works.
Edited to add: with regard to the idea that some competitor with an AI code generator will out-program Google as an organization, you should take note that Google has already deployed AI code generators in large-scale production. So whenever a future competitor re-invents this facility at that moment they are already years behind Google[2].
To summarize, I believe it is somewhat strange to believe that the organization with demonstrated state-of-the-art machine learning research and development will be caught unaware by the ML revolution.
But mostly the ML stuff is silently launched behind the scenes. And you slowly become inured to astonishing feats of machine learning like being able to translate spoken Chinese to English text on your mobile, and cars that drive themselves, and the fact that you can search your photos for "toy lizard" and that actually works.
Edited to add: with regard to the idea that some competitor with an AI code generator will out-program Google as an organization, you should take note that Google has already deployed AI code generators in large-scale production. So whenever a future competitor re-invents this facility at that moment they are already years behind Google[2].
To summarize, I believe it is somewhat strange to believe that the organization with demonstrated state-of-the-art machine learning research and development will be caught unaware by the ML revolution.
1: https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/...
2: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...