Comment by neilv

I missed the disclaimer. So, when watching it, I started to think "Wow, so Google is releasing their best stuff".

But then I soon noticed some things that were too smooth, so seemed at best to be cherry-picked interactions occasionally leaning on hand-crafted situation handlers. Or, it turns out, faked.

Regardless of disclaimers, this video seems misleading to be releasing right now, in the context of OpenAI eating Google's lunch.

Everyone is expecting Google to try to show they can do better. This isn't that. This isn't even an mocked-up interaction future of HCI concept video, because it's not showing a vision of what people want to do --- it's only showing a demo of technical capabilities.

It's saying "This is what a contrived tech demo (not application vision concept) could look like, but we can't do it yet, so we faked it. Hopefully, the viewer will get the message that we're competitive with OpenAI."

(This fake demo could just be an isolated oops of a small group, not representative of Google's ability to rise to the current disruption challenge, I don't know.)