Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Key points

• Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life.
• Why is it called that?
• We’ll get to that later.
• Gozde Oznur, the product lead behind the new app, told TechCrunch that the idea is to use data culled from across your various Google services to generate a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories.” These stories come in a variety of different shapes and forms, although — in general — they seem to be lifestyle suggestions.
• Oznur describes them as “places to visit, topics to explore, things to try, upcoming trips, events that you should be aware of.” Dreambeans generates these ideas based on a user’s Google data.