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Here’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below:
For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set.
I’ve bought new tires from all sorts of places and people, and nobody ever asked for my license plate number. Is this an American thing?
In fact, these days, I simply order tires online and tell the company to deliver them to one of their many “partners,” i.e. car repair shops. They notify me when the delivery is done, I leave the car there overnight and collect it the next morning. That’s all there is to it.
No way in hell VP of Google was buying something, they have an army of slaves for that.
I’m in Europe and some places ask you for your license number to auto detect what car you have. Helpful for less car minded people.
Exceptionally useful for the kind of person who knows they have a 2019 Honda minivan, but can’t for the life of them recall whether it’s a Passport or an Odyssey
Or people who have a red car… and that’s all they know about it :)
I’ll take them over self-proclaimed “car guys” any day. Useful idiots so confident in their skills that they insist that “any moron” can look up the headlights and wiper blades for their “Cummins”, “Duramax”, or “Hemi”. These are the same ones who will also yell at the service manager because the technicians “under-inflated” their tires because they weren’t inflated to the sidewall pressure. Hell, I’ve even had them insist that major issues that could cause an accident if not corrected are “perfectly fine”. Honestly, it wouldn’t be a problem except that everybody else has to share the roads with their rolling death traps.