Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, December 8th,

2023, I'm Brian McCullough today.

People across the internet are accusing Google of faking that Gemini AI video demo that everyone was

wowed by. Apple seems to be diversifying out of China for manufacturing at

pace now. Might the UK's CMA have an issue with Microsoft's relationship with Open AI and of course the week

on long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So when Google announced Gemini, its new AI product, it had a fancy demo video that was pretty wow.

Except, it seems that Google's demo of Gemini's especially multimodal AI capabilities was, shall we say,

edited? Quoting Parmy Olson in Bloomberg.

On first viewing, the demo is impressive stuff. The model's ability to track a ball of paper from under a plastic cup or to infer that a dot-to-dot picture was a crab before it is even drawn show glimmers of the reasoning

abilities that Google's deep-mind AI lab have cultivated over the years.

That's missing from other AI models, but many of the other capabilities on display are not unique and can be replicated by chat

GPT plus. Google also admits that the video is edited.

Quote, for the purposes of this demo latency has been reduced and

Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity it states in its YouTube

description this means the time it took for each response was actually

longer than in the video. In reality the demo

wasn't carried out in real time or in voice. When asked about the video by

Bloomberg opinion, a Google spokesperson said it was made by quote

using still image frames from the footage

and prompting via text and they pointed to a site showing how others could interact

with Gemini with photos of their hands or of drawings of other objects.

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