I have been amused by many of the reports of Google Gemini’s peculiar behavior (for excellent examples see here, here, here, here, and read Jeff’s piece), but, in my view, the most interesting thing about this episode is what it has shown about where Google now is as a company. All told, Google Gemini has yielded precisely the opposite reaction that Google’s famous search engine did upon its release. In 1998, those of us who were using AltaVista or Ask Jeeves or whatever found Google and said, “wow, that’s incredible!” This week, everyone who has had some experience with other AI products has found Gemini and said, “what total garbage!” (Or worse.)
