The Fault in Gemini’s Stars
The excitement was on as soon as Google released Gemini after several delays. The company published an impressive demo video of the AI model answering questions by analysing drawings of ducks, playing rock-paper-scissors, and sorting out objects – all in real time!
It was even replying in human-like voices. Sundar Pichai posted on X saying, “Best way to understand Gemini’s underlying amazing capabilities is to see them in action, take a look ⬇️”
But turns out, the demo was fake, and Google admitted to it.
The video was just a recording that had cherry-picked frames later edited to impress the crowd. Some Google employees said the video was created “using still image frames from the footage, and prompting via text”.
Google’s blog on Gemini explained how the researchers did multimodal prompting by showing images to the model along with a prompt, for it to give the correct answers.
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