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[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'll one up you.

Google's "principal evangelist" for Gemini did a 2hr presentation for almost 1,000 people at my company on Google Meet a few weeks ago.

40 mins late due to nobody knowing how to get more than 500 people in a meet.

He then spent 90 minutes showing everyone how to do shit that literally everyone knows how to do with AI nowadays; touch up old photos of your grandparents, make shitty marketing mascots and logos, etc...

Here's an image I took during the presentation. For a laugh, look at the background text:

A C-Suite exec got impatient and asked when we were going to cover how to use agentic tools and he said "oh I've got a little section at the end for that." Ffs

Literally nothing useful happened during this meeting and nearly 1,000 employees were idle for no reason. A complete and utter waste of fucking time. Gemini dude didn't even bother to consider what use cases we might be looking into, he just did a boilerplate ELI5 of AI that would have been outdated in like 2022.

Absolutely insane.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

lol why is "animals" in quotes?

[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Never work with children or animals (or do a live demo)

ROFL. Thanks for the screencap, that’s priceless.

Lastly, poor Buc-ee the beaver deserves better.