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Re: Google I/O

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Post by nevi-me »

The keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it.

I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week.

They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything. Google Home is a cluster-f, basic things keep failing, and every other announcement from the Google Home VP is about Gemini. It took them years to reduce the frequency at which devices go offline.

Even their sessions seem underwhelming. It's a mixture of "what's new in X" and "AI" this and that.

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Post by reaperducer »

numlock86 wrote: post #108
r_lee wrote: post #61

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI)…

While I get your point, this kind of gives me "Old man yelling at cloud" vibes. Yes, all the AI talk and bullshit bingo became quite annoying at this point, and I also can't wait for it to settle. But AI is here, and it's here to stay. Wether we like it or not. It's like what dotcom was for the internet back then. We'll get through this eventually - with a bubble bursting here and there - but making fun of it with ov…

gives me … vibes.

Your writing says a lot about you, too.

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Post by peter303 »

Relatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.

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Post by rurp »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #151
r_lee wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

typed it all on my phone. I didn't even have to come up with anything, it just came out naturally. I guess you could say I've become AI-native

Are you working for hire? I'd like you to join my team where we are automating parametrizing paradigms to foster growth in changing paradigms of parametrizing workflows.

Zero new synergies?! Doesn't sound like a real project to me.

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Post by han1 »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #146
han1 wrote: post #127

Remember the good ol' days when we fully owned and controlled our devices? I want that back!

When was that? When phones used wires?

I wasn't alive in the 90s, so for me it was 2012-2015. Android was pretty open, iOS was easier to jailbreak, and the ecosystem felt a lot "freer" than today where you step outside of Google or Apple's garden and get endless Cloudflare captchas, apps refuse to load due to attestation, and things are designed without privacy in mind.

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Post by reaperducer »

southbay567 wrote: post #194
r_lee wrote: post #61

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI)…

Honestly getting tired of this knee jerk anti-AI stance here on HN. We’re talking about the most revolutionary technology in history that’s going to change every facet of our lives. It’s getting toxic, now we have people getting booed at graduations for just mentioning AI. There will be a transition but it’s not the end of the world. Don’t cling to the past, look forward to the future.

the most revolutionary technology in history

Fire. Electricity. The wheel. The printing press. Assembly lines. Flight. The computer. Space exploration.

Anyone else care to contribute?

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Post by arcanemachiner »

Alive-in-2025 wrote: post #94
r_lee wrote: post #61

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI)…

I can't think of a way to mock all the ai hype more than what they actually just talk about. "Next, our hacker news AI agent reads and comments for you based on your commenting history, no need to think or do anything at all - we'll automate your time wasting and make better, more relevant jokes than you & your karma score will increase exponentially."

AI is even causing us to get laid off from our own user accounts. What next?!

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Post by han1 »

oceansweep wrote: post #184
lacewing wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, wired phones were often leased from the phone company! If you shop for vintage phones from the 1960s, they will often have a decal to that effect. Examples: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/71gAAeSw1URp8QPF/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tPAAAeSw~RxqBiLR/s-l1600.webp I think this started to change only in the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to cheaper electronics imported from overseas?

It was because of anti-monopoly legislation, https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/att-breakup-spin... ; i.e. breaking up 'Ma Bell' into the baby bells, and the current oligopoly we have instead in the modern day. An older picture showing how they were broken up and then re-merged: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurelings/comments/r24ed0/diagram... or https://legalclarity.org/what-happened-to-the-baby-bells-aft...

I had no idea people paid by the minute

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Post by andriy_koval »

svachalek wrote: post #196
sylens wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Wave was ahead of its time. It could've been a meaningful Slack competitor

It's just the performance was ridiculously poor. With like half a dozen people connected, it made 300 baud modems look fast.

likely because of gwt

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Post by [deleted] »

hijodelsol wrote: post #74

It's discouraging to see Google price Gemini 3.5 Flash at 3x the cost of Gemini 3 Flash. I would think that most people that deployed this model in production would have used it for low latency tasks, classification/categorization, customer support or basic RAG-/RAG-style chatbots. Performance on coding benchmarks is nice and all, but where is the "intelligence too cheap to measure"? This new cost point is quite proh…

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