Rio Akasaka

Product Manager on Gemini in Google Maps Navigation. Personal views, not endorsements or official commentary.

[Rio Akasaka @Rio]

Super proud of the work that went into building this. I learned so much about how to integrate AI thoughtfully and make it truly helpful and delightful. Can't wait to see how you use Gemini on your next Google Maps journey.
https://t.co/KifkwC8iCZ

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@ok6ixx As a JP person there's a few things that I'd add:

* I empathize deeply with the feeling of stress when you lose something, and the delight in finding it again. So we want that to happen to someone else, even if we never know them.
* It just feels icky to use someone else's stuff

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Obsessed with my new @Seestar_astro S30 Pro especially in the darker skies of Colorado

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Someone is probably being paged right now

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This was why we invented the internet

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

The laws of physics

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@DJ_CURFEW You lost me at millon dollar bands

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Anecdotally the Meta layoffs seem to be affecting a lot of data center ops folks. Does that make sense to anyone in this day and age?

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"Can I help you find anything?" Said no store employee in Tokyo ever

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I love how there's basically just one kind of apple for sale in Japan

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AI email tools should have a feature that says before sending this reply, did you actually read the email

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I just realized package delivery on-time and undamaged is so reliable here in Japan that delivery insurance is almost unheard of. I just shipped a TV and had zero concerns it would arrive undamaged.

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Apparently the Swiss don't believe in microwave machines

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Exgüsi, wo isch de Escher Wyss Platz?

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Are there any AI models that are actually good at accurate geospatial rendering? Like map visualizations. Neither Gemini nor ChatGPT works well in this regard.

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@unagix 結局見つけましたか？自分も探してますがなかなか無いですね

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The fact that Atlassian stock has barely budged after the culling of 10% of its workforce (unlike, say, Block) should be truly terrifying.

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Clearly the marketing folks at Nitori have never seen The Exorcist

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The real tragedy of AI is that the time savings you have in building products is replaced with combined time waste of everyone building the same thing at the same time

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Rendita manages multiple hundreds of millions in pension assets and yet is still "Just another WordPress site" 😂

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If you didn't have to work another day in your life, would you?

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Just read this, please. https://t.co/uxpKGA10YU