Going into this, I was going to talk about how excited and hopeful I was that Google was finally ready to take on OpenAI and, by extension, Microsoft. It was difficult not to be excited, especially after seeing all of the different promotional videos, such as Mark Rober using Bard with Gemini to find the best design of a paper airplane. We also got a "Hands-on with Gemini" video (below), which gives us a glimpse of what could be possible with future iterations.
Then the other shoe dropped, and Google got caught with its hands in the cookie jar.
