When Google’s Gemini tech demo was unveiled last week, observers praised it, but the tech company acknowledges that portions of it were simplified for “brevity.”
Google Gemini
Once the talk of the town, a “hands-on” tech demo of Google’s new artificial intelligence model, Gemini, is now being called “basically entirely fake” by critics.
Since its release on December 7, the six-minute video has received 2.1 million views on YouTube. It depicts the robot interacting with a human operator in a fluid and seemingly real-time manner, interpreting hand gestures, drawing a duck, and creating a game called “Guess the Country” using only an image prompt of a world map.
The video has been “shortened for brevity,” but Oriol Vinyals, a Google Deepmind executive, has since clarified that the user prompts and outputs are real. Gemini’s interactions took far longer than the video depicted and were actually text-based rather than voice-based.
With a disclaimer stating, “For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity,” Google even acknowledged this when posting the video to YouTube.
Nevertheless, this hasn’t stopped a barrage of criticism directed at Google on social media.
“Liked on Google. In an X (previously Twitter) post on December 10, a software developer named “Nelly R Q” claimed that the AI demo showcasing Gemini’s capabilities was FAKE.
According to “Chief Nerd,” another software engineer, “it was edited, it was cut to look like it was faster and more capable than it is.”
Source: Cheif Nerd
There have reportedly been complaints about the video even from Google staff members.
A Google employee to Bloomberg that the video presents an inflated image of Gemini and demonstrates how simple it is to make the artificial intelligence tool appear more sophisticated than it truly is. In a on December 7, the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, also failed to address the adjustments made to the six-minute video.
