Comment by AndrewKemendo
2 years ago
I’m not sure I’d agree that what they showed will never be possible and in fact my whole point is that I think Google can most likely deliver on that in this specific case. Chalk it up to my experience in the space, but from what I can see it looks like something Google can actually execute on (unlike many areas where they fail on product regularly).
I would agree completely that it’s not ready for consumers the way it was displayed, which is my point.
I do want to add that I believe that the right way to do these types of new product rollout is not with these giant public announcements.
In fact, I think generally speaking the “right” way to do something like this demonstrates only things that are possible robustly. However that’s not the market that Google lives in. They’re capitalists trying to make as much money as possible. I’m simply evaluating that what they’re showing I think is absolutely technically possible and I think Google can deliver it even if its not ready today.
Do I think it’s supremely ethical the way that they did it? No I don’t.
The voice interaction part didn't look a far cry from what we are doing with Dynamic Interaction at SoundHound. Because of this I assumed (like many it seems) that they had caught up.
And it's dangerous to assume they can just "deliver later". It's not that simple. If it is why not bake it in right now instead of committing fraud?
This is damaging to companies that walk the walk and then people have literally said to me "but what about that Gemini"? and dismiss our work.
I feel that more than you realize
That was basically what magic leap did to the whole AR development market. Everyone deep in it knew they couldn’t do it but they messed up so badly that it basically killed the entire industry
So let's not give big tech benefit of the doubt on this one. We have to call them out but even then the lie is already half way around the world...
I don't care what google could, in theory, deliver on some time in the future maybe. That's irrelevant. They are demonstrating something that can't be done with the product as they are selling it.