Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

The Verge
Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, creates hyper-personalized trip itineraries using user data, proving both incredibly useful and deeply invasive.

Summary

Gemini Spark is an ambitious new AI agent from Google designed to interact with external apps and automate tasks by accessing the user's personal data. In a test involving a family trip to Hershey, PA, the AI demonstrated remarkable utility by autonomously incorporating specific details like family members' names, ages, dietary restrictions, and existing email confirmations. While the author found the resulting itinerary impressive and highly functional, they also experienced a sense of profound discomfort at the level of data mining required. The article concludes that the future of helpful AI relies on users granting machines total access to their personal lives, effectively turning individuals into both the customer and the raw material for the AI's operations.

(Source:The Verge)