6 days ago
Google wants you to be a citizen data scientist
For more than a decade, enterprise teams bought into the promise of business intelligence platforms delivering 'decision-making at the speed of thought.' But most discovered the opposite: slow-moving data pipelines, dashboards that gathered dust, and analysts stuck in time-consuming prep work.
Now, Google Cloud thinks it has the fix. It's investing heavily in AI agents to finally close the gap between data insights and real-world decisions. These tools are designed to work behind the scenes, letting non-technical users ask questions and get real answers fast. It's a shift that could redefine data jobs across industries, pushing analysts toward more strategic roles as AI takes on the grunt work.
At the Cloud Next Tokyo conference, Google unveiled a wave of specialized AI agents under its agentic AI initiative on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), designed to streamline data engineering, automate scientific workflows, and empower developers and business users to analyze data using plain English prompts.
Richard Seroter, senior director and chief evangelist at Google Cloud, says the company envisions a future where AI agents are deeply embedded within enterprise systems, assisting with data analysis while leaving strategic decision-making to people. These agents, he explains, are designed to be 'a powerful and empowering layer of a company's enterprise platform, with humans in the loop.'
