As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
TL;DR
This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It's so effective that it's scary. Spark knew that David's dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay's wife, even though neither of them explicitly provided this information to Google. But what's scary to me is how all of this stuff seems geared toward a future of "productivity" that completely misses what needs to be fixed in our world.
Nauti's Take
Impressive and unsettling at once: Google's Spark shows how capable AI agents already are, and that unlocks genuine productivity potential. The hard catch: Spark knew private details no one typed in, and the gospel of pure 'productivity' sidesteps the problems that actually matter.
Nauti sees upside for power users but urges caution on privacy and on overblown promises of salvation.
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