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Google's new AI mode is good, actually

(simonwillison.net)
129 points xnx | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 14:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xnx ◴[07 Sep 25 15:49 UTC] No.45159230[source]▶
My main takeaway is that Google's AI efforts are still playing catch-up in the mindshare race even if they've long since caught up with or surpassed OpenAI technically. A huge number of people who are heavy users of ChatGPT or Claude may have never tried Gemini.
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jacquesm ◴[07 Sep 25 16:09 UTC] No.45159445[source]▶
A huge number of people that use Google Docs and other products daily are trying really hard to avoid using it in spite of it being rammed down their throats to the point that leaving Google starts to look like a viable option. Oh, and of course you do pay for it even if you don't use it and never plan to use it.
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whimsicalism[dead post] ◴[07 Sep 25 21:10 UTC] No.45162180[source]▶
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nerpderp82 ◴[08 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45163983{3}[source]▶
> cultural purity test among left-leaning people

Calm down with taking the rhetoric to 11, and don't project some sort of simple left/right numberline on this.

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1. ukblewis ◴[08 Sep 25 03:40 UTC] No.45164446{4}[source]▶
Sometimes a little personal experience-based clearly anecdotal talk is okay. Hacker News isn’t some scientific journal, and yes, I too know one leftie in my circle that hates AI models and zero right wingers who feel that way… Do you have any anecdotal evidence to the contrary?