The 1 thing holding Google back with AI

11 May 2025 · 0 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The 1 thing holding Google back with AI" (published May 11, 2025). The excerpt is a short commentary by a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) criticizing Google's AI product usability—citing NotebookLM, Gemini 2.5, and AI Studio—and arguing that poor UI/UX and lack of centralized UX ownership are the main obstacles despite strong models and data. The clip appears to be an opinion/analysis segment about product design and developer/user experience in Google's AI ecosystem.

The one thing holding Google back with AI. So they have the good tech, they have the great models, they have all the data in the world. I think the problem with it is a lot of their stuff is hard to use, right? So NotebookLM, it's not the perfect UI. If you want to use Gemini 2.5, you have to open up like AI Studio and you have to pick the right model and all that stuff. Google is usually— they were good at user experience in the past, not so much anymore. And I think user experience is still going to matter a lot. They need to have someone that is assigned the UI/UX for all these things, and I think they're going to do a lot better.