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Re: Googlebook

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Post by ulimn »

rkozik1989 wrote: post #916
reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

I'm not sure about that. The "normies" around me love AI. My mother and mother-in-law drive me crazy when I ask for advice and they copy the answer directly from ChatGPT. Not to mention the stupid images generated by AI.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by [deleted] »

reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

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Re: Googlebook

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Post by fortyseven »

rkozik1989 wrote: post #916
reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

I think once the hype dies down, and things start to normalize, the hate will fade into the background. Instead of "AI", we'll just get "apps with features" again.

Re: Googlebook

#925

Post by vovavili »

reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

I would be curious to see how OpenAI or Anthropic would implement this vision without the inertia of a ~200,000 person company and with all the enormous brain gain these two companies now have. A Linux-based, LLM-native phone/laptop hybrid is pretty close to being my personal dream consumer device.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Maybe this will be a market success? My non-tech brother loves all the AI features on his Pixel phone.

Apple has a good story with Handoff to connect Apple devices. Google might have some success selling a Googlebook + Pixel phone combo.

Cons: Google cancels products that some people love.

Pluses: I think there is a real chance that Anthropic and OpenAI tank financially and Google might win consumer AI, with enterprise AI shared between Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.

Re: Googlebook

#927

Post by u_fucking_dork »

rkozik1989 wrote: post #916
reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

The average Redditor that performatively hates AI sure. But outside of the chronically online bubble, the average person, in my experience, does not hate AI

Re: Googlebook

#928

Post by electrosphere »

Jzush wrote: post #305

Gross. This is just more proof that corporations simply don't know how to market AI. Everything is an ad for an ad at this point. The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. No one is doing that, these people don't exist. No matter how hard corporate America wishes they did. This is why AI doesn't sell. This is why companies like Microsoft and Dell are pulling ba…

I used Gemini recently to upgrade my 10-year old desktop PC. I listed my current components, budget, requirements and it walked me through different options/components etc. Gave me all kinds of tips. I committed probably ~£450 to the project and more or less trusted it.

The handful of times I did a manual "spot check" of it's advice, it turned out to be good. The upgrade was a success and I'm very happy.

My take away is that AI is a wonderful tool and if this "AI laptop" is optimised for that then it's a bet/product worth trying. Well done Google, I'll watch with interest.

Re: Googlebook

#929

Post by jmye »

reisse wrote: post #907

I see the vision here, which the top commenters (sorry, couldn't read all of them) seems to miss. This should be a moonshot bet on the next generation of user experience. People are complaining about apps, but the idea here should be to make apps irrelevant as a concept. You don't need "apps", you need data feedable to LLM and a visualization toolkit for presenting results. And maybe some tools to manually wrangle th…

> The caveat, though? I very much doubt Google has the capacity to execute this properly.

I don't think it's a capacity issue, it's that their whole entire business is advertising and acquiring the user data to feed it. I don't see any reason they would want to execute on this in a way that is meaningfully beneficial for users.

I suppose, my own caveats for some of the responses suggesting people like being advertised to.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by MattRix »

ulimn wrote: post #921
rkozik1989 wrote: post #916

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

I'm not sure about that. The "normies" around me love AI. My mother and mother-in-law drive me crazy when I ask for advice and they copy the answer directly from ChatGPT. Not to mention the stupid images generated by AI.

In my experience, old normies love AI, young normies do not.
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