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Re: Google I/O

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Post by r_lee »

VanillaAD wrote: post #48

You can tell the labs are scrambling with this agentic nonsense. Nobody really knows what to do with it. All 3 major labs streamlined their desktop apps and plans to be the exact same. And we are still doing email drafts as "consumer use cases". As I'm typing this they are talking about reimagining the search box. They turned it into a chat window. Truly the pinnacle of innovation.

and I don't think anybody likes getting AI written emails, at least if I smell any AI I immediately get a sour feeling

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Post by hijodelsol »

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 prohibitive and will eat up a lot of margins if developers adopt it.

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Post by layer8 »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #37

"AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?

Judging by global RAM, storage, and compute hardware demand, yes there is.

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Post by vatsachak »

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)…

Powerful. AI

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Post by prerok »

p4coder wrote: post #55
LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #37

"AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?

At the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.

Indeed. Don't worry, ads will be back, just give it some time /s

Re: Google I/O

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Post by ai_fry_ur_brain »

dvt wrote: post #56

I was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The…

They have like 100 junk AI products, antigravity is just one. AI is hardly super charging anyone's work either, regardless of how you package it, especially normies.

95% of people just want to search things and be entertained with their tech. Most dont want to write slop emails at light speed or whatever it is you think AI might be useful for to the average person.

If you consider slopifying your output at a really high velocity "supercharging" then maybe.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by Corence »

jerrygarcia wrote: post #40

Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party

Unironically you can put "what are good demos for agentic workflows at Google I/O that would be received well by the general public" into Gemini's AI Mode and get better suggestions for use cases than what they're showing.
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