Google’s Hands-on with Gemini video was one of the most impressive aspects of the firm’s new AI large language model (LLM) launch. However, Bloomberg has talked to a Google spokesperson who admitted that the video was not recorded in real-time. Moreover, voice prompts were not even used, the vocal interaction with Gemini that you hear was dubbed in later. Google has also released a blog post, at the same time as the demo, which illustrates how the video was made.
Sundar Pichai, the Google CEO, shared the hands-on video on Thursday, as he said the best way to understand “Gemini’s underlying amazing capabilities is to see them in action.” A hint that not all was as it seemed was included in the YouTube description of the video. “For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity,” reads a footnote.
