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Richard Lawler
Why am I telling a robot to memorize something?

I guess “conversational” input is a feature of Google’s updated Gemini AI agents, but this step of the Project Mariner demo is where they lose me.

Maybe the bot can take some research work off my hands, but now I have to remember three steps of instructions to give it and even ask it to remember what it’s doing twice? How is this easier?

Screenshot from Project Mariner YouTube video, showing instructions to the AI bot that say “Memorize this list of companies. Then find their websites and look up a contact email I can use to reach them. Remember these so I can use them later.”
Image: Google (YouTube)
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