For sixty seconds during Super Bowl LX, Google Gemini managed to seem like a tool the average person might like. That's a surprisingly rare feat, but one that many of the biggest AI companies attempted during the big game.
In a soft-spoken, emotionally textured ad titled New Home, a mother uses Gemini to help her young son imagine what their new house might feel like. She pulls up a photo of the empty bedroom and asks Gemini to recreate it with her son’s toys, bed, and even the dog’s bed from a photo in their current home. They decorate. They wander through a photorealistic version of the new yard, dreaming up possibilities. The tech is present, but never central.
