(Image credit: Google DeepMind) I don't doubt there's some worthwhile application of at least one technology lumped under the monolithic 'AI' banner. Unfortunately, big tech's major players seem preoccupied with reinventing the wheel and introducing an unnecessary agentic twist. Case in point, Google DeepMind's latest experimental demo attempts to give your humble mouse cursor an AI enhancement. "The mouse cursor is something that has been forgotten," argues Adrien Baranes , a staff researcher prototyping Human-AI Interactions at Google DeepMind, "What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model, like Gemini, trying to interpret whatever we are saying, like another person would." To be fair to the demo, barking commands at Gemini does reduce the standard, laborious process of copy and pasting recipe ingredients into a shopping list by a considerable number of clicks.…