Labs.Google

This "Journalist X LLMs" video gives the same corporate, polished vibe as the Gemini announcement... Google's AI communication really feels like any "snake oil consulting group" at this point. I really hope they get their stuff together and start putting engineers & researchers in charge again.

What happened with clearly explaining something in text. I immediately feel overwhelmed with all the links, a video playing, some song in the corner (?) a discord server and an "I'm feeling lucky button".

Probably because I&#x27;m not in their target (I&#x27;m a male approaching the mid-40s) but what&#x27;s with this type of design?<p>Meaning stuff that floats, epilepsy-inducing strong color contrasts, &quot;brutalist&quot; fonts, big photos of people&#x27;s faces instead of text that should explain what the &quot;labs&quot; part is all about. I closed the tab after a quick scroll-down, hoping that at some point some fixed and detailed text section would show up, it didn&#x27;t.

I feel it was unnecesary to create this because <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.google&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.google&#x2F;</a> already exist? It just seems like they want to take another URL with a &quot;pure&quot; domain name instead of psubdirectories, etc parts.<p>Most probably is pure SEO ;-)

I’ve seen google launch this same idea a few times now, probably will end the same way as the previous tries.

Is that a fucking Discord link on a Google property? Wild times.<p>Looks like we&#x27;re starting to see the fruits of Google&#x27;s labor since turning the dial to eleven after OpenAI stole the show. I have no horse in this race but I&#x27;m guessing within a year Google has market share (mind share?) parity with OpenAI.

I was curious on the subject but when I clicked I got thrown back all that brutalist design in my face that I&#x27;ve immediately closed that browser tab.<p>Did that happen to anyone else here?

These look like weekend OpenAI wrapper projects.

This is a sort of replacement for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;experiments.withgoogle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;experiments.withgoogle.com&#x2F;</a> (cue stale shutdown joke)

I tried the first demo, not available in EU. I might return next year to their demos, or never. Next year the demos might also not be available in EU.

Man, people hating hard on here. Google’s just out there trying their best.<p>We should encourage any and all endeavors to build new useful tools. I agree that Google hasn’t been on par with other big players out there, but at least they’re trying. It’s so “trendy” to hate on Google, meanwhile everyone’s using at least one of their products every single day

the site needs a big novelty cursor to complete the look

The design is so over the top and busy I&#x27;m not even sure what I&#x27;m looking at. Why can&#x27;t google just release something like a normal company? If it&#x27;s great they won&#x27;t need graphic design bloat on the landing site.

For the love of god just ship actual tools, not PR papers, not faked demos, not &quot;experiments&quot; that will get dusty and dropped after a few months.<p>Like we saw you doing Magenta 5 years ago and early image gen almost a decade ago, culturally Google needs to get away from this academic brainworm that the research is the work and the citations the payoff not the actual productization and the users+revenue. Because every company making big moves in this space and eating their lunch certainly has, and in a 2-3 years the biggest movers wont even have come from academia at all.

As usual no love for Canada from Google. Apparently we can&#x27;t even have music: Unfortunately instrument playground is not available in your country. Click close to return to the homepage.

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).<p>iPhone, lockdown mode

So it looks cool...<p>But I almost have no idea what it is.<p>I say almost, because I guess it&#x27;s something to do with AI.<p>I&#x27;m at that life stage where I do not want to discuss on Discord how AI can become a creative thought partner.<p>Honestly Google, just get over yourself already! ;-)

Fun Design. Reminds me of Google Gravity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrdoob.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;chromeexperiments&#x2F;google-gravity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrdoob.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;chromeexperiments&#x2F;google-gravity...</a>

Can&#x27;t seem to join some of the tools from across the pond. What is this sadness.

&gt; This tool isn’t available in your country yet<p>Sigh, Google, you never fail to disappoint :(

Great graphical design and funky understated css - google has come a long way.

re: discord<p>&quot;Invites are currently paused for this server. Please try again later.&quot;

&quot;Say what you see&quot;. What is this? Is this some kind of reverse-image generation to basically train google be better in the future at recognizing images? What the hell is this suppose to be?

the animations are overwhelming. i don&#x27;t want to see so much shit moving around on screen. they also don&#x27;t respect the user&#x27;s &quot;prefers-reduced-motion&quot; setting.

The words &quot;Google&quot; and &quot;Labs&quot; does not sound good together... they just killed everything what was good. Does anybody remember &quot;Sets&quot; ?

Choose your favorite URL scheme and stick with it Google! Just from this website:<p>- textfx.withgoogle.com<p>- notebooklm.google<p>- artsandculture.google.com&#x2F;experiment&#x2F;poem-postcards

&quot;Unfortunately ... is not available in your country.&quot; Without even a why, how, when...

&quot;Not available in your country&quot;<p>Why would they perform geo-locking on their products?

Is Google just for children now? Who is the target audience?

Way too polished and &#x27;large&#x27; for a labs site.<p>It&#x27;s as if Google are trying to work out what worked well with their Beta programme (which I used to enjoy and get excited about) and replicating it as a finished product in the 2020&#x27;s with &#x27;modern&#x27; design.<p>The way they communicated beta projects a decade ago was 100 times better. Just raw, simple, unfinished, and clearly things to play with.<p>This site just looks like marketing garbage. Sorry. Just annoyed at it.

Neat design. How can I copy it?

The website fails to explain what it is and why users should care. It’s not a very good home page in that respect, as the point of a home page for a business is to engage in seconds by answering those two questions.<p>It’s similarity and lack of structural UX makes it so that besides loudly being AI, AI, AI!!! it is confusingly similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.company&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.company&#x2F;</a><p>Google needs to establish a leadership position in the AI market and make it clear that they are deeply focused and executing better than competitors. This isn’t helping.

Grim.

I feel many of you are missing the purpose and intent of this site, so I will explain.<p>It&#x27;s to showcase the various ways in which you can reliably be informed that an experiment or feature is not available in your country.

Ah as usual, only available in the U.S

Google is having the same degree of success in AI, they had developing chat apps.<p>The only successful product developed internally at Google is the search engine.