Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts
The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
Bloomberg Parmy Olson
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Discussion
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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At least one of Google's Gemini AI videos seems to have been faked but Google says that criticism is too harsh. “All the user prompts and outputs in the video are real, shortened for brevity,” a Google DeepMind VP said. “The video illustrates what the multimode user experiences…
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@parmy
Parmy Olson
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🚨PSA about Google's jaw-dropping video demo of Gemini - the one with the duck: It was not carried out in real time or in voice. The model was shown still images from video footage and human prompts narrated afterwards, per a spokesperson. More here: https://www.bloomberg.com/... …
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@oriolvinyalsml
Oriol Vinyals
on x
Really happy to see the interest around our “Hands-on with Gemini” video. In our developer blog yesterday, we broke down how Gemini was used to create it. https://developers.googleblog.com/ ... We gave Gemini sequences of different modalities — image and text in this case — and h…
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@jessefelder
Jesse Felder
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'A demo video released by Google has wowed social media but it's a feat in spin. Google's showboating is almost certainly timed to capitalize on all the recent turmoil at OpenAI but Google has demonstrated uncanny new tech before that didn't go anywhere.' https://www.bloomberg.co…
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@nilzkool
Neel Das
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@parmy Oh damn, this is so clickbaity by Google
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@harrymccracken
Harry McCracken
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Google seems to have made Gemini look extra-astounding by creating a video demo that bears little resemblance to the actual experience. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@_alialkhatib
@_alialkhatib
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i vaguely remember when apple was like “btw the whole presentation you just watched was shot on an iPhone” and everyone got mad as hell that apple didn't like... shoot it in natural light or something so it'll be interesting to find out what people make of this
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@parmy
Parmy Olson
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✨More from Google on THAT Gemini “duck” video: “We created the demo by capturing footage in order to test Gemini's capabilities on a wide range of challenges,” a spokesperson says. “Then we prompted Gemini using still image frames from the footage, & prompting via text.” (1/5) [i…
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@parmy
Parmy Olson
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In its YouTube description Google also admits the video is edited for latency - which makes it look like the model is responding more quickly than it is. Very slick marketing on Google's part and another reason to be cautious amid hype. My column: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@firstadopter
Tae Kim
on x
The super fast real-time from voice prompts Gemini video was terrific, except for the fact it wasn't real-time or video or super fast or voice prompts 🤦♂️ [image]
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@svpino
@svpino
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Google, this is embarrassing. You published an impressive video showing Gemini answering your questions. It looked awesome. It looked real-time. But it was a lie. None of that happened as recorded and presented to the public. Instead, you cherry-picked frames and edited a... [ima…
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@ajones55555
Andrew Jones
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Fun fact: that viral-ish Gemini demo video is basically entirely fake [image]
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@reckless1280
Nilay Patel
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Somewhere a Google engineer notices that the data center numbers are redlining as the AI tries to figure this out
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@vitor_dlucca
@vitor_dlucca
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I'm extremely disappointed with Gemini Pro on Bard. It still give very, very bad results to questions that shouldn't be hard anymore with RAG. A simple question like this with a simple answer like this, and it still got it WRONG. [image]
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@filippie509
@filippie509
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Tried gemini based Bard, and well, it still can't write intersection of two polygons. It's one of those rare relatively simple to express functions that wasn't ever implemented in python, there is no stack overflow post, and all these models fail on it. [image]
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@benjaminnetter
Benjamin Netter
on x
FYI, Google Gemini is complete trash. [image]
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@mohsen____
Mohsen Azimi
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Trying out Gemini Pro: it is pretty disappointing for my example. I asked it to make an analog clock using HTML like this one that ChatGPT made. It can cite some code from Github but it's off by a few ms... [video]
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@buzzedison
Edison Ade
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GPT 4 still greater than Gemini Pro. Created Tic Tac Toe game with ChatGPT and Bard(Running on Gemini Pro) See video for the result. ChatGPT wrote the code on first try(First Video). Bard on 3 tries(Second Video). [video]
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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We really don't know anything about Gemini Ultra. Does it beat GPT-4 for real? If so, why by such a small amount? Two options: 1) Gemini represents the best effort by Google, and the failure to crush GPT-4 shows limits of LLMs approaching 2) Google's goal was just to beat GPT-4
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@tomgara
Tom Gara
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This is wild, the car one in the demo seemed super impressive for this exact reason
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@charlesarthur
Charles Arthur
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Even at the edited speed I wasn't impressed. Should I have been?
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
on x
For comparison, here are the answers I got from Grok, ChatGPT, and Bing: [image]
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@modestproposal1
@modestproposal1
on x
so basically AGI
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@techcharts
@techcharts
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Hey Gemini, tell me what you are seeing? Gemini: I see a cup & handle chart pattern that can act as a continuation. The handle is forming above the 200-day average, so if there is a breakout it will be in the direction of the uptrend. Trending in the direction of the existing... …
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@ztobi
Tobias Zwingmann
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@tunguz At the bare minimum it should have shown a link to let me google that for you.
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@filippie509
@filippie509
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What it does, is it calculates the list of points where two edges of input polygons intersect, but that obviously is not the same as the polygon that is an intersection of the two.
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@buzzedison
Edison Ade
on x
[video]
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@vitor_dlucca
@vitor_dlucca
on x
Meanwhile, Bing gave a COMPLETE list of winners. And all of them are right (as far I know). [image]
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@nkirankumars1
N Kiran Kumar
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Just tested Google's Bard with Gemini Pro update. No bugless snake game on 1st try; reported, asked to fix—couldn't. Tried ChatGPT 3.5 free version, got correct bug-free code on the first attempt! 🚀🐍 #ChatGPT #Bard #Gemini [image]
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@minchoi
Min Choi
on x
@tunguz 🤔 [image]
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
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So I just asked Gemini Pro in Bard for the updates regarding the hottest news story these days, the war in Israel and Gaza, and its answer essentially was, I kid you not, “just Google it.” 🤦♂️ [image]