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
#2link to duck video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#3Yes, 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.
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#4The 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.
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#5How is this not false advertising?
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#6Remember when they faked that Google Assistant booking a restaurant thing too.
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#7It’s not live, but it’s in the realm of outputs I would expect from a GPT trained on video embeddings.
Implying they’ve solved single token latency, however, is very distasteful.
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#8Yes, 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?
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#9How is this not false advertising?
Or worse, fraud to make their stock go up
edit: s/stuck/stock
Re: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
#10The Twitter-linked Bloomberg page is now down.[1] Alternative page: [2] New page says it was partly faked. Can't find old page in archives.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...