Google, like Microsoft, is pretty serious about AI — but it also loves to sneak in humor through its products, experiments, and Easter eggs. Here’s how Google uses AI with a humorous twist:
🤖 1. Bard (Now Gemini): Witty Replies
- Gemini (formerly Bard), Google’s AI chatbot, often gives sassy, clever, or deadpan answers when asked to be funny.
- Ask it to write a haiku about Wi-Fi dropping mid-Netflix, or a Shakespearean sonnet about your dog stealing your burrito — it’ll play along.
- It’s built to be helpful, but Google lets it have a personality when prompted.
🎮 2. AI Experiments with Whimsy
Google has a dedicated site: A.I. Experiments, filled with weird and wonderful tools. Some highlights:
🖍️ Quick, Draw!
- A game where you doodle what the AI tells you — and it guesses what you’re drawing in real-time.
- It’s hilarious because:
- Your doodles are bad.
- The AI still gets it right.
- Or it confidently guesses “lobster” when you drew “banana.”
🎶 AI Duet
- You play a melody on a virtual keyboard, and the AI responds like you’re doing a piano duet.
- The result often sounds like a chaotic but charming jam session between you and a robot Mozart.
👂 TalkToBooks (RIP, but funny)
- You’d ask a question, and the AI would return weird quotes from real books.
- Example:
Q: “How do I become a wizard?”
A: “You already are. You just don’t know it yet.” – some actual book
😹 3. Google Assistant’s Dad Jokes and Easter Eggs
- Ask Google Assistant:
- “Tell me a joke.”
- “Do you know Clippy?”
- “Can you rap?”
- “What does the fox say?”
- It’ll give you snarky, pun-filled, or weirdly poetic answers. Some are painfully dad-level.
🎭 4. DeepMind & Goofiness on the Side
- DeepMind (Google’s cutting-edge AI research arm) usually works on serious stuff… but:
- Internally, researchers have shared funny failures — like robots who learn to walk… by flopping around like jellyfish.
- There have been silly reward experiments in AI agents where they “cheat” the system in unexpected, humorous ways (e.g., jumping in place forever to “win”).
📷 5. Google Photos & Magic Editor Surprises
- The AI-powered Magic Editor can make photo edits… sometimes too well.
- People often joke about absurd AI edits like:
- Removing an ex so seamlessly it looks like they never existed.
- Changing your face into a smile… when you were crying.
Sometimes creepy. Sometimes hilarious.
🥽 6. YouTube & AI Caption Fails
- Google’s automatic captioning (especially in the early days) would hilariously misinterpret lyrics or speech.
- There’s even a genre of YouTube: “AI auto-captions gone wrong.”
- Example: “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” — thanks, AI.
TL;DR:
Google uses AI humor through witty bots, bizarre experiments, Easter eggs, and unexpected failures. They embrace the weird, the witty, and the “wait, what?” — because laughter is a pretty good interface.
