Is Google now even more falling behind in the Area of AI?

How Google tricked us all with the impressive AI demo of Gemini

Google Gemini — Was this almost all completely fake?

The market of AI and especially Chatbots is getting more and more intense and also affects the market of cloud services and tools. Google really wanted to catch up here, but this time did they led people behind the wrong light?

A few days ago, Google has proudly presented Gemini, an extremely powerful language model that is intended to compete with GPT-4 & Co. But now, it seems that the impressive AI demo was an almost complete fake. An impressive video was shown that supposedly showed the interaction with the AI. Now it is clear that large parts of the video are not real[1][2].

As Google has since clarified to the US business service Bloomberg and many other news sources, the interaction with the AI shown in the video entitled Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI never took place in the form shown. The video description of the video only said that the processes had been shown in an accelerated manner. The official video from Google is linked below[3]:

In fact, significantly more manipulation was necessary to present the simple, fast and entertaining interaction with Gemini shown by Google in the video. The vocal communication shown by Google between the alleged user and Gemini never took place. Instead, the actual demo was carried out using still images from the video recordings in conjunction with text-based input of the queries to the AI. Basically, the whole thing didn’t work nearly as impressive as it was suggested in the video. The video demonstrated that Gemini could use voice output to quickly and interactively collaborate with the user and, for example, predict what the user is currently drawing while the image is still being created. The AI’s real-time reactions never existed either[1][2][3].

Whether this really just happened in order to show the world what could be possible in the near future or maybe the aspect of Google having the fear of falling behind in this topic plays also a role is not clear. But it had to be said that Microsoft is in advance when it comes to Chatbots. Microsoft has already integrated such bots in more and more Azure and M365 products. But also new services on the market like DataGPT are now offering Data Analytic tools based on these kinds of AI models.

Google users, fans and also market analysts will probably keep an eye on how Google advantages in this market and how they want to keep up with its competitors within the next months.

Sources and Further Readings

[1] Bloomberg, Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI (2023)

[2] WinFuture, Google Gemini: Die beeindruckende KI-Demo war fast komplett Fake (2023)

[3] Youtube, Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (2023)