New for the I/O presentation was Sidekick, a feature designed to understand what you’re working on, pull together details from across Google’s different apps, and present you with clear information to use as notes or even incorporate directly into your work. “Even better, what if these prompts were actually contextual and changed based on what you were working on?”“What if AI could proactively offer you prompts?”In a live demonstration that followed, the audience was shown how Sidekick could analyze a roughly two-paragraph-long children’s story, provide a summary, and then suggest prompts for continuing it. The spirit of Clippy lives on, but in a world that’s moved on from needing a paperclip to tell you how to write a letter