Gemini Is the New Google+
computerworld.comIf anyone was falling prey to “Google+” behavior I’d say it’s Microsoft slapping “Copilot” on everything.
Google is probably doing the same with Gemini but MS really takes the cake IMHO.
Yeah Build wasn't very good this year. AI attached and talked about primarily instead of focusing on actual tech. I love github Copilot but as a dev not much interested in using it in every Microsoft program.
After reading the whole article I feel the author misses the point (intentionally or not). LLMs are not truth machines. The article feels like a long winded rant about how Gemini is supposed to perform perfectly as a source of knowledge.
There is an enormous amount of utility in LLMs for scaffolding code, making recommendations for services, rephrasing marketing, or coming up with ideas.
A hammer isn't a good can opener, but it is still a useful tool. Likewise, stop using LLMs as a replacement for everything (ignoring the marketing hype) and you will likely be less cynical.
I imagined that this article was going to be about the emergence of a social network on Gemini which in some way resembled the one Google developed years ago, but instead it is about a completely unrelated thing Google has recently developed which also happens to be called Gemini!