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Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

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Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

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Post by rose_ann_ »

nirvael wrote: post #8
Inward wrote: post #3

Yes, that was obvious as soon as I saw it wasn’t live I clicked off. You can train any LLM to perform a certain task(s) well and google engineers are not that dense. This was obvious marketing PR as open AI has completely made google basically obsolete with 90% of my queries can be answered without wading through LLM generated text for a simple answer.

>without wading through LLM generated text ...OpenAI solved this by generating LLM text for you to wade through?

No. It solved it by (most of the time) giving the OP and I the answer to our queries, without us needing to wade through spammy SERP links.

Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

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Post by billconan »

kweingar wrote: post #4

The video itself and the video description give a disclaimer to this effect. Agreed that some will walk away with an incorrect view of how Gemini functions, though. Hopefully realtime interaction will be part of an app soon. Doesn’t seem like there would be too many technical hurdles there.

performance and cost are hurdles?

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Post by anigbrowl »

kweingar wrote: post #4

The video itself and the video description give a disclaimer to this effect. Agreed that some will walk away with an incorrect view of how Gemini functions, though. Hopefully realtime interaction will be part of an app soon. Doesn’t seem like there would be too many technical hurdles there.

People don't really pay attention to disclaimers. Google made a choice knowing people would remember the hype, not the disclaimer.

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Post by cryptoz »

I'll admit I was fooled. I didn't read the description of the video. The most impressive thing they showed was the real-time responses to watching a video. Everything else was about expected.

Very misleading and sad Google would so obviously fake a demo like this. Mentioning in the description that it's edited is not really in the realm of doing enough to make clear the fakery.

Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

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Post by kweingar »

billconan wrote: post #12
kweingar wrote: post #4

The video itself and the video description give a disclaimer to this effect. Agreed that some will walk away with an incorrect view of how Gemini functions, though. Hopefully realtime interaction will be part of an app soon. Doesn’t seem like there would be too many technical hurdles there.

performance and cost are hurdles?

It can be realtime while still having more latency than depicted in the video (and the video clearly stated that Gemini does not respond that quickly).

A local model could send relevant still images from the camera feed to Gemini, along with the text transcript of the user’s speech. Then Gemini’s output could be read aloud with text-to-speech. Seems doable within the present cost and performance constraints.

Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

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Post by zozbot234 »

Good, that video was mostly annoying and creepy. The AI responses as shown in the linked Google dev blogpost are a lot more reasonable and helpful. BTW I agree that the way the original video was made seems quite misleading in retrospect. But that's also par for the course for AI "demos", it's an enduring tradition in that field and part of its history. You really have to look at production systems and ignore "demos" and pointless proofs of concept.
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