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Here is the headline Business Today published just in case you wonder why businesses do this

"Google Gemini Outperforms Most Human Experts & GPT-4 I Artificial intelligence I Google’s DeepMind".

It's all marketing. Same reason why satya publically postes sama + others are joining a new team at MSFT to continue should the openai thing not work out.

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I'm not sure how that is really responding to my question with an explanation. I'm well aware that its marketing and I'd hope my comment makes that clear. The question is why oversell the product, and frankly by a lot. Because people are going to find out, I mean the intent is that they use it after all.

I'm sure the marketing team can come up with good marketing that also isn't deceitful. The question is why pull a con when you already got something of value that customers would legitimately buy?

> I'm well aware that its marketing and I'd hope my comment makes that clear. The question is why oversell the product, and frankly by a lot.

Most marketing sells the dream, not the reality. There are just many shades of grey (although 50 tends to sell well).

I'm still not sure how that is responding to my comment. Have I said something that makes me seem naive of the existence of snake oil salesmen? I'm actually operating under the assumption that my comment, and especially followup, explicitly demonstrate my awareness of this.

Because it may significantly delay those customers from buying the other competing product. Yea, Google has something of value, but OpenAI seems to have something of more value and Google is frantically trying to keep OpenAI from eating the whole market.

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