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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.
It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people.
As if ad companies were ever interested in having users who can think...
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 mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago. People were definitely talking about that one...
I'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 transcript…
I'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 transcript…
What I find most intriguing is the fact that these are giant companies with huge ad budgets and that presumably clear the highest profile ads with the C suite or people near it. All these presumably smart people thought these ads were great. They either agreed with the message or wanted to convey a different one that absolutely did not come through… as any moron could have told them.
It shows how insulated the bubble is around these people and companies. They must never even interact with people who aren’t drinking the same brand of kool-aid.
It’s tempting to think this is just an elite mega corp thing but I see loads of out of touch bubbles around.
People need to mix more. Get out of whatever filter bubble you live in. Read things you disagree with. Know people outside your profession or who don’t think like you.
We used to say “travel” but I think intellectual and social diversity is more important now. We carry our filter bubbles with us. Travel can still help though, especially if it’s to places with differing dominant cultures.
UnPayWalled: https://archive.ph/7OS2Q Take-away quotation: > All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing — report summaries, data surveys, children’s letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately — are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is? > It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts an…
But I don't agree with those quotes. Writing to other people is a way to communicate your ideas and feelings to them.
If you are unable to easily communicate those ideas and feelings, you can get someone, or some thing, to help you. The alternatives are to just send it and know it won't be understood, or struggle and hope it's understood.
That ad isn't asking for help with that, though. It's asking the AI to pretend to be his daughter and send a fan letter that means nothing. It isn't taking his daughter's thoughts and feelings and communicating them... It's just making everything up whole cloth, and even inventing a fake daughter for the guy to have that wants and does what he wants, instead of what she wants. It's disgusting.
https://gemini.google.com/share/815f28b9c364 (via https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/dear-sydney-why-i-find-go... )
https://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.