Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.
I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment
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#12> I don’t hate efficiency.
Are any of us trying to be “efficient” when writing a fan letter? I wouldn’t think so. I want a suggestion on how to start.
If I asked an AI for the letter from the ad, I would also have read and edited it heavily before I considered it “complete.”
Maybe TFA author is correct that people need to hear what he’s saying (they won’t), but I for one will be using AI output as suggestions.
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#13A funny coincidence: the Bing AI internal codename was Sydney according to leaked system prompts. I'm sure Google didn't think about that at all, but one could turn it into a metaphor where Google is looking up to Microsoft/OpenAI with intent to eventually pass them.
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#14> I don’t hate efficiency. Are any of us trying to be “efficient” when writing a fan letter? I wouldn’t think so. I want a suggestion on how to start. If I asked an AI for the letter from the ad, I would also have read and edited it heavily before I considered it “complete.” Maybe TFA author is correct that people need to hear what he’s saying (they won’t), but I for one will be using AI output as suggestions.
Maybe the athletes can just skip those pesky fans and type "Gemini, write a fan letter to me that I can read for a little confidence boost".
The entire sentiment and value of your AI-enhanced fan letter is contained in the prompt you fed the AI, because that's the part created by a human expressing their human feelings. All the rest is stochastic fluff. Why not just tweet the prompt to the athlete and call it a day?
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#15Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but now even an op-ed complaining about an ad feels like it might actually itself be a submarine ad in disguise; a "false-flag" attack against your own side to stir the pot and get people thinking about your product. There's no such thing as bad publicity, as they say.
> There's no such thing as bad publicity, as they say. That's what they say, but it isn't true. Business history is littered with counterexamples.
Boeing has done so well from their bad publicity. :)
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#16> If you haven’t seen this ad, you are leading a blessed existence and I wish to trade places with you. But I am about to recount it to you so that you can share in my misery
Thanks. How kind.
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#18I've seen this ad a hundred times during the Olympics so far (why do they play the same ads over and over?) -- and this article summarizes how it makes me feel very well.
The logical extension of this stuff is insane -- why have kids learn to write at all? They can just have an AI do it. Why learn anything? It's all on the internet anyway.
There are plenty of good use cases for AI generated texts. Creating transcripts from audio, writing meeting summaries, and other types of rote, monotonous tasks. Writing a letter from the heart is not one of those things that should be outsourced.
If there's anything on this earth we should value, it's humanity. And the tech giants are chomping at the bit to take that away. It's a sad vision for the future they're pushing
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#19> I don’t hate efficiency. Are any of us trying to be “efficient” when writing a fan letter? I wouldn’t think so. I want a suggestion on how to start. If I asked an AI for the letter from the ad, I would also have read and edited it heavily before I considered it “complete.” Maybe TFA author is correct that people need to hear what he’s saying (they won’t), but I for one will be using AI output as suggestions.
Children editing LLM generated garbage instead of actually writing to their heroes. Christ. This article was aimed at people like you mate.
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#20https://gemini.google.com/share/815f28b9c364 (via https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/dear-sydney-why-i-find-go... )
I love this. I know this isn't exactly self-reflection but it's interesting to think about the type of self-reflection that is completely objective.