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A “hands-on” tech demo of Google\u2019s new artificial intelligence model Gemini has gone from being the talk of the town to being accused by critics of being \u201cbasically entirely fake.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six-minute video, which garnered 2.1 million views on YouTube since its release on Dec. 7, shows it seamlessly interacting with a human operator in seemingly real-time, including analyzing a duck drawing, hand gestures, and inventing a game called \u201cGuess the Country” with just an image prompt of the world map.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Oriol Vinyals, a Google Deepmind executive has since clarified that while the user prompts and outputs in the video are real, it has been \u201cshortened for brevity.\u201d In reality, Gemini’s interactions were text-based, not voiced, and took much longer than how it was represented in the video.<\/p>\n
Google even admitted when uploading the video on YouTube, with a disclaimer noting: \u201cFor the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity.\u201d<\/p>\n
This, however, hasn\u2019t stemmed a flood of criticism toward Google on social media.<\/p>\n
“Google LIED. The AI demo flaunting Gemini’s capacities was a FAKE,” said\u00a0one software developer “Nelly R Q\u201d a software developer in an X (formerly Twitter) post on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was edited, it was cut to look like it was faster and more capable than it actually is,\u201d said “Chief Nerd,” another software engineer.<\/p>\n
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