Not only were these calls not faked, the dogfooders were required to go out and honor their reservations.
Internally, the criticism is brutal, because we want free-form, general, conversation abilities, and we don't consider the demo to be perfect.
But fake ?
IMO, if the team wanted to fake a demo, they could had done that years ago when the project started.
But we are Google. We don't fake demos because we don't have to.
[edit: To add to what I said: If you think that a team at Google could fake something at this scale and have the face of the company back it at our most high-profile event of the year, just think of the aftermath internally. The code is available for all of us to study. The design docs are there for us to read. There were thousands of engineers that at least peeked at the codebase even on the same day of the demo.]
Internally, the criticism is brutal, because we want free-form, general, conversation abilities, and we don't consider the demo to be perfect.
But fake ? IMO, if the team wanted to fake a demo, they could had done that years ago when the project started.
But we are Google. We don't fake demos because we don't have to.
[edit: To add to what I said: If you think that a team at Google could fake something at this scale and have the face of the company back it at our most high-profile event of the year, just think of the aftermath internally. The code is available for all of us to study. The design docs are there for us to read. There were thousands of engineers that at least peeked at the codebase even on the same day of the demo.]