Hands-on with Google's Gemini Spark: An impressive but unsettling agentic AI experience
By
David Pierce
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Summary
The article describes the author's hands-on experience with Google's new Gemini Spark, an agentic AI platform that can autonomously perform complex multi-step tasks across the web. Unlike previous AI travel planning demos that produced generic results, Gemini Spark demonstrated impressive capabilities like booking flights, finding specific restaurants, and handling nuanced requests. The author expresses both amazement at the technology's effectiveness and concern about its implications, including privacy risks, potential for misuse, and the unsettling feeling of an AI acting with such autonomy on behalf of a user.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSo far, I've found this to work only in the most generic ways: If you want to do the six most obvious things in any city on planet Earth, AI has you covered, but that's about as far as it goes.
Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I've had yet.
It works astonishingly well — maybe too well.
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