Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real
by Emilia David from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GZR1)
Image: Google Google just announced Gemini, its most powerful suite of AI models yet, and the company has already been accused of lying about its performance.
An op-ed from Bloomberg claims Google misrepresented the power of Gemini in a recent video. Google aired an impressive what the quack" hands-on video during its announcement earlier this week, and columnist Parmy Olson says it seemed remarkably capable in the video - perhaps too capable.
The six-minute video shows off Gemini's multimodal capabilities (spoken conversational prompts combined with image recognition, for example). Gemini seemingly recognizes images quickly - even for connect-the-dots pictures - responds within seconds, and tracks a wad of paper in a cup and ball game in real-time....