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https://gemini.google.com/share/815f28b9c364 (via https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/dear-sydney-why-i-find-go... )
It's funny how clearly it regurgitated phrases from the web (I'm pretty sure Gemini wouldn't say "pattern-matching autocomplete algorithm" by itself)
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…
This and that awful Apple ad are both saying the same thing, or at least that’s how people interpret it. They’re saying “AI is here to make life sterile and empty and it’s awesome!” 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 gre…
I interpreted it as look at all these cool arts/creative things that we've managed to compress into a single sheet of glass. I sort of get how people interpreted it as just maliciously destroying those things as a means to an end, but that feels like an intentional reading of bad faith to a company that is generally very creativity-minded.
I wonder if it would have received less blow back if they had "hidden" the actual crushing of the objects and just showed them entering a chamber with an implied compression... but the visuals of everything exploding in the hydraulic press are pretty cool and a more dynamic way to convey the "look at what all we've packed into the product" message.
I’m not the most in touch person in the world but this ad felt super out of touch. I was having this discussion with someone and they said the problem with tech is they’re just going to teach our kids to be prompt engineers and learn nothing else, and I naively defended the tech industry and said no, of course not, AI will be used to enhance people’s learning of traditional skills, not replace it, and boy does this a…
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 was honestly disappointed that Microsoft shut down Tay because they feared reputation damage. So yes, this was in my opinion good advertising, and a bad handling of the outcry from Microsoft's side.
I guess Microsoft wants to target a different audience ...
In trying to find a use case for AI, this ad actually sets up the worst possible scenario. All I can think of now is Sydney getting flooded with AI generated fan mail and trying to adjust spam filters.
> 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?
"Sorry, I won't create content that encourages self-loathing, but you can always ask to be complimented."
Is Gemini still so 'safe' that it's unusable?