Google’s Gemini AI has faced backlash for a demonstration video it released of its capabilities.

Tech company and artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Google has come in for a lot of criticism over the past few days after releasing a demonstration video detailing the capabilities of its new multimodal AI model, Gemini.

Google launches Gemini AI

After teasing the potential launch of its Large Language Model (LLM) to the public at its I/O developer conference in June, the tech giant finally unveiled Gemini AI earlier this week. Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared a video on the X app touting the AI ​​model’s potential, with a focus on its interactive capabilities.

In the video, which looks like an interaction between a human and an AI voice assistant, Gemini accurately identifies a duck created using lines and shapes. The video shows that Gemini AI can recognize visual pictures and physical objects and can even tell them apart.

This unique feature demonstrates a new frontier in AI design and modeling. Gemini AI highlights a more comprehensive use of LLM, which could lead to an excellent user experience, making it a tough competition for OpenAI's ChatGPT. In addition, Google seems to be trying to tell the public that with Gemini, they can have a fluent voice conversation with AI.

Unfortunately, the six-minute video sparked some negative reactions from the public, who believed the content was doctored. Notably, the company added a description on YouTube stating that “for the purposes of this demonstration, delays have been reduced and the Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity.”

However, no disclaimer was mentioned when the demo video was shared on the X app.

Google admits demo video was edited

Google publicly acknowledged to Bloomberg that the demonstration was not conducted in real time.

However, the company said, “The video illustrates what is possible with Gemini, based on real multimodal cues and test outputs.”

To achieve the six-minute demo, the Google team behind the AI ​​development used static images and provided text prompts for Gemini to respond to. This is different from the concept Google led viewers to believe.

Despite the backlash, Google said it was still looking forward to "seeing what people create when we open Gemini Pro on December 13th." #Gemini  #谷歌AI