Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If people actually knew what percentage of tech demos, even by the biggest companies, were at least partially faked, they would be offended.

  Unless I can actually use it myself and replicate results, I just assume that tech demos are complete crap.

  Remember how maybe a year or two ago, Google showed a demo of a digital assistant independently calling and making an appointment for you with a hair dresser? It even added natural pauses, and "um"s and that sort of thing. If that was real, I think a lot of people would want it. Where is it? They already made it for the demo, right? So it seems like all they need to do is to sell access to it. Why would you put all that effort and make something and then not sell it? It’s almost as if it never existed and the entire demo was fake.

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  • loremipsum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That feature was actually legit, it existed on pixel phones a couple years back I have used it myself to make an appointment.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, like I said, the point is that I refuse to believe it until I’ve actually used it myself.

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  • Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I worked in a restaurant and received many Google assistant calls that sounded completely natural.

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• november@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Throwback to Microsoft’s pre-Kinect project dubbed Xbox ‘Natal’ way back in the day.
  Being younger, I—along with many—really that was the close future of gaming. Of course looking in hindsight, of course it was all fabricated.
  I’m not surprised at Google’s Gemini either. The way that which the whole demo video was narrated and played out made it seem too linear, too perfect.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahhh Peter Molyneux… I still have no idea how he has a job in the industry after all the things he’s pulled.

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    • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He has a finished Black & White 3 he uses as leverage, threatening to sell it to a publisher unless he keeps getting employment

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t believe I fell for that Milo demo, they were just acting.

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• detalferous@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell me you’re insecure about your AI tech without telling me you’re insecure about your AI tech.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well… yeah.

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