Why Everyone Hates Google's AI Olympic Ad

Episode 378: Neal and Toby recap the Fed meeting and whether signs of a rate cut are still looking good. Then, Google launched an Olympic ad promoting Gemini AI which left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Then, Boeing hires a new CEO to turn things around for the struggling company. Plus, another wearable AI device goes viral, with a simple necklace that you can talk to…and that’s about it. And finally, Neal shares his favorite numbers from the week featuring a train dispute, the best cities for young grads, and Harvard’s fencing elite.

#fed #google #ai #boeing

00:00 - August is here!
02:15 - Fed Rates
07:30 - Google AI Ad
12:15 - New Boeing CEO 15:20 - AI Friend
19:00 - Neal’s Numbers

[thomaslamptonbickham]

I appreciate having two people who are far more business-pilled than I am who still have similar morals.

[dameneko]

Amtrak is a wayyyy more chill experience than dealing with air travel. Their trains are overall mid compared to what you have in many other parts of the world, but still a great value. They have one of the most generous baggage policies anywhere and their coach seats give you more room than many airlines' business class seats. So long as you don't get stuck taking a bus in between, and you have the time to spare, it's an amazing ride, especially on the scenic routes. For the same money I'd spend on a bus, I can take the train.

[elphaba-]

Toby calling Charlotte a mid-tier city and not a great city made me immediately vote for Neal.

[kevinchadwick]

It doesn't help that A.I. has in general proven to be useless and another hype to take traders money, like blockchain before it with both wasting time, money and energy, e.g. LLM consisting only of hallucinations and blockchain consensus protocol insecurities that are obfuscated but not removed.

[personzorz]

" If you didn't take the time to write it, why should I take the time to read it?"

[MargaritavilleHockey]

@18:45 "ameliorate".. very nice! I'm feeling a new segment... Neal's Lexeal of the Day!

[rbiscuit]

The Uber shout-out was crazy. More busses!

[LoserZalbo]

Shoutout to Uber? Not say, Taxi's?

[TheChrisBycz]

Grammarly did something similar with a dad going from using the tool to help with email responses to helping him write a song for his daughter. I didn't hear about any backlash from that ad despite pulling the same threads 🤷‍♂.

[DualDier]

*X company releases AI ad*
*People get mad*
*Company removes AI ad*

If companies want to normalize AI they need to stick to their guns and stop removing them. If not, the use of AI in the general media will die - just food for thought. Granted, I hope it does die because it's terrible, but it's just silly why they keep doing this. Like what did they expect, lol.

Jolly good show, boys.

[GemsynKnight]

Hope anyone that feels this was wrong has never sent a birthday card before!

[djgg]

People always find things to be mad about for no reason tbh