- Google introduced the Gemini neural network, a global update for the Bard chatbot.
- At the same time, the company released a promotional video demonstrating the capabilities of “multimodal input.”
- Some experts and community members accused the developer of lying, since the functionality shown was “embellished” to make it more impressive.
Google has introduced a global update for the Bard chatbot – Gemini – with a built-in “multimodal input” function. At the same time, the developer released a promotional video, which faced criticism from the community.
The video published on Google’s YouTube channel demonstrates the “multimodal input” function.. The user communicates with the chatbot through voice commands, demonstrating gestures and pictures.
The neural network quickly and efficiently perceives received requests, gives hints in the process and draws fairly accurate conclusions. In the comments under the video, many users noted the quality and speed of interaction with the model.
However, some users suspected Google of deception. This, in particular, was stated by the developer and expert in the field of AI under the pseudonym “Nelly R Q”:
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson made a similar point.. He stated that what was happening on video was not recorded in real time:
Olson shared a link to the publication of the developers, where they described in detail the process of preparing certain results of the model’s responses in the video. It’s also in the description of the video above, but apparently few people paid attention to it.
A network engineer and journalist who goes by the pseudonym “Chief Nerd” said the video was sped up.. He contacted Google directly, which confirmed his findings:
Later, the head of Google’s OpenMind division, Oriol Vinyals, published his statement. In it, he noted that the prompts for the model to produce results were “reduced,” and the goal of the video was to “inspire developers.”
In November 2023, billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI company presented its chatbot.. Against this background, the token of the same name increased in price by 1000% in a few days.