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Post by bloopernova »

WXLCKNO wrote: post #343
jeron wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s technically very impressive but the question is how many people will use the model in this way? Does Gemini support video streaming?

In 5 years having a much more advanced version of this on a Google Glass like device would be amazing. Real time instructions for any task, learn piano, live cooking instructions, fix your plumbing etc.

I'm hopeful for my very ADD-forgetful wife and my own neurodiverse behaviours.

If it's not condescending, I feel like we'd both benefit from an always-on virtual assistant to remind us:

  Where the keys and wallet are.
  To put something back in its place after using it, and where it goes.
  To deal with bills.
  To follow up on medical issues.
etc etc.

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Post by m3kw9 »

You know who’s really f——-ed? Apple, they are now way behind google who is still behind OpenAI even with this.

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Post by rvnx »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #301
ACS_Solver wrote: post #267

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To quote Gemini, what the quack! Even with the understanding that these are handpicked interactions that are likely to be among the system's best responses, that is an extremely impressive level of understanding and reasoning.

Calls for a new corollary to Clarke's Third Law. "Any sufficiently-advanced rigged demo is indistinguishable from magic."

Magic Leap!

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Post by galaxyLogic »

thunkshift1 wrote: post #333
milesward wrote: post #136

This demo is nuts: https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=8ELqSinKHdlGlNpX

They should do this live instead of a pre recorded video for it to be more awe inspiring. Googles hype machine cannot be trusted.

Right. I would hope that competition does such live demonstration of where it fails. But I guess they won't because that would be bad publicity for AI in general.

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Post by charcircuit »

tikkun wrote: post #259
tikkun wrote: post #200

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To add to my comment above: Google DeepMind put out 16 videos about Gemini today, the total watch time at 1x speed is about 45 mins. I've now watched them all (at >1x speed). In my opinion, the best ones are: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI - variety of video/sight capabilities * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPwU1FNhMOA - understanding direction of light and plants * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D…

My general conclusion: Gemini Ultra > GPT-4 > Gemini Pro See Table 2 and Table 7 https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_... (I think they're comparing against original GPT-4 rather than GPT-4-Turbo, but it's not entirely clear) What they've released today: Gemini Pro is in Bard today. Gemini Pro will be coming to API soon (Dec 13?). Gemini Ultra will be available via Bard and API "early next year…

SOTA does not require being productionized. eg. GPT-3 was SOTA and it was not publicly accessible.

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Post by vinniepukh »

tikkun wrote: post #60

One observation: Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" - to me this comes off kind of badly, like it's trying too hard to emphasize how long they've been doing AI (which is a weird look when the currently publicly available SOTA model is made by OpenAI, not Google). A better look would simply be to sh…

No surprises here.

Google DeepMind squandered their lead in AI so much that they now have to have “Google” prepended to their name to show that adults are now in charge.

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Post by HlessClaudesman »

Maxion wrote: post #110
ilaksh wrote: post #58

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That's for Ultra right? Which is an amazing accomplishment, but it sounds like I won't be able to access it for months. If I'm lucky.

Yep, the announcement is quite cheeky. Ultra is out sometime next year, with GPT-4 level capability. Pro is out now (?) with ??? level capability.

??? Capability, sometime next year, welcome to the Gemini era.

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Post by misterbwong »

tikkun wrote: post #60

One observation: Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" - to me this comes off kind of badly, like it's trying too hard to emphasize how long they've been doing AI (which is a weird look when the currently publicly available SOTA model is made by OpenAI, not Google). A better look would simply be to sh…

I also find that tone a bit annoying but I'm OK with it because it highlights how these types of bets, without an immediate benefit, can pay off very well in the long term, even for huge companies like Google. AI, as we currently know it, wasn't really a "thing" when Google started with it and the payoff wasn't clear. They've long had to defend their use of their own money for big R&D bets like this and only now is it really clearly "adding shareholder value".

Yes, I know it was a field of interest and research long before Google invested, but the fact remains that they _did_ invest deeply in it very early on for a very long time before we got to this point.

Their continued investment has helped push the industry forward, for better or worse. In light of this context, I'm ok with them taking a small victory lap and saying "we've been here, I told you it was important".

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