Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome

> previewed “as early as December,” ... After that, Jarvis might be made available to early testers, so a launch does not seem imminent.

Google is trying to show they are not behind in the AI race by advertising something probably barely out of alpha testing. It just reinforce the idea that Gemini is still inferior to Claude and ChatGPT.

I tried Gemini once and then tried Claude. It was such a huge difference I can't imagine Google, who created the transformer architecture, can be so behind a tiny startup a fraction of their size.

How many ads-per-second will Jarvis serve?

In all seriousness I firmly believe they’ll embrace ads in AI responses and I see zero reason to think they wouldn’t.

Google Gemini can't even set reminders on my Pixel 9 Pro. It's really hard for me to get excited about Google AI products when it can't even match the functionality of their non-ai products that they're supposed to replace.

Takes screenshots and uploads them to the cloud for processing because it is so inefficient?

Google’s not even pretending to care about privacy any more.

I’ve used the paid version of Gemini and was underwhelmed with its limitations. The integrations in workspace seem like they barely tried. It can’t even recognize spreadsheet headers to answer basic questions, despite having a private level of access to your docs that exceeds what a third party could. Is this chrome AI going to be any better, or just a way for them to implement the collection of training data as quickly as possible to avoid irrelevance?

It really says something about the state of competition, the power of capital, and the level of data hoarding these megacorps enjoy. A startup fumbling this way would be dead on arrival and receive no second chances.

There’s also something very offensive about Google championing the death of ad blockers in browsers while sucking in all our data to power their invasive browser features.

At the moment none of these tools are sticky; switching is easy; trial costs are low.

This feels more like a sticky move than an innovation in what AI can do.

This is the know more about you, better context for results trick. Which any other could deliver with your "user habit profile RAG data" - browser hook is a great way to collect.

What is Google doing?

Gemini is terrible. It's way worse than even GPT 3. Never mind 3.5 or Claude. It's basically useless. Even the simplest things like trivial code transformations don't work. Gemini goes rogue all the time and starts to do things it shouldn't.

I get the feeling that in desperation people at Google are hacking the metrics to make their model look good. While in reality it's just junk.

No model, and I've tried a lot of them, has such a massive gap between good benchmark performance and horrible real world performance.

No thanks

How can I stop this bullshit from ever affecting my life?