I'm John Batchel with my colleague Gene Marks of the Guardian newspaper, UK and US edition,

the Philadelphia Inquirer, hometown newspaper, and AI Anywhere.

Gene has observations.

There are reports of AI all over the world right now.

It's about as hot as you can get before it's generally considered a commodity.

So we go to a report that he's filed for us, AI Tech at its I.O. conference.

What does I.O. mean, Jane?

Well, I.O. is Google's I.O. Conference.

They just had this this past week, and Google released a bunch of really cool technology that I think will really benefit

a lot of businesses.

For starters, Google, you know, they released translation technology.

Their translation technology is such that now if you go into Google Meet, you can have conversations

with people that real time will be translated back to you by voice or by text. So imagine that

John. I mean, it's just you, you're speaking to somebody who's a Spanish speaker or speaking

Japanese. And as you're having this conversation with them,

it is being translated real-time in your ears, which is just astounding when you think about

the implications for businesses that are trying to do business overseas. One of the biggest

challenges was dealing with these language issues, and it's becoming less

and less of a challenge. And by the way, this is spurning different types of hardware as well.

I am, we're going to go to Spain for a few weeks in January, John, and I'm thinking of getting

there, there's earbuds that are now available that will leverage Google's technology that

will actually translate in my ear.

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