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I have seen parts of this ad come up on YouTube and every time I see it I wonder how they thought it was a good idea. There are so many other use cases they co

I have seen parts of this ad come up on YouTube and every time I see it I wonder how they thought it was a good idea. There are so many other use cases they could have chosen but instead they went with, instead of a genuine letter lets make something fake from his daughter to a random person. Like, with all the fears about AI replacing humans, why would you go for replacing emotional connection? Edit: Compare it to the Meta ones. Focusing on actually asking it questions or doing things like making a workout routine. Which while still problematic from a reliability standpoint, at least it's not literally leaning into AI removing the human component.

rurp 2y ago
Google seems to operate in a giant tech bubble. It's wild how out of touch their advertising and products can be. There was a thread recently about how Google Maps works decently well in any scenario that you would expect a stereotypical Google employee to use it in, but is terrible outside of those cases. Outsourcing genuine human interactions to AI is abhorrent to most people, but I'm sure it appeals to a certain type of tech maximalist at Google.