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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Edge cases only.

As Waymo uses AI-generated 3D worlds to simulate driverless cars’ encounters with tornadoes, floods, and even elephants, one commenter wonders if they could try AI school buses next.

cowboyfromspace:

They got elephants down but forgot about school buses?

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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Gemini becomes an AI interior decorator in Google’s Super Bowl ad.

The “New Home” commercial features nostalgic piano music and a heartfelt voiceover of a mother and son envisioning their new house with some help from Gemini. Notably, it steers clear of fact-focused prompts like the Gouda cheese stat Gemini got wrong in one of last year’s Super Bowl ads.