Google takes heat for a misleading AI demo video that hyped up its GPT-4 competitor.
  • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    802·
    11 months ago

    If people actually knew what percentage of tech demos, even by the biggest companies, were at least partially faked, they would be offended.

    Unless I can actually use it myself and replicate results, I just assume that tech demos are complete crap.

    Remember how maybe a year or two ago, Google showed a demo of a digital assistant independently calling and making an appointment for you with a hair dresser? It even added natural pauses, and "um"s and that sort of thing. If that was real, I think a lot of people would want it. Where is it? They already made it for the demo, right? So it seems like all they need to do is to sell access to it. Why would you put all that effort and make something and then not sell it? It’s almost as if it never existed and the entire demo was fake.

    • loremipsum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      That feature was actually legit, it existed on pixel phones a couple years back I have used it myself to make an appointment.

      • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        11 months ago

        Well, like I said, the point is that I refuse to believe it until I’ve actually used it myself, because they’ve squandered all credibility with me.

        • Thehalfjew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          That demo struck me as a cherry-picked example. Can it work? Sure. Is it always that smooth? I highly highly doubt it.

  • november@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Throwback to Microsoft’s pre-Kinect project dubbed Xbox ‘Natal’ way back in the day.
    Being younger, I—along with many—really thought that was the close future of gaming. In hindsight, of course it was all fabricated.
    I’m not surprised by Google’s Gemini demo video either. The way that which the whole demo was narrated and played out made it seem too linear, too perfect.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      Ahhh Peter Molyneux… I still have no idea how he has a job in the industry after all the things he’s pulled.

      • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        He has a finished Black & White 3 he uses as leverage, threatening to sell it to a publisher unless he keeps getting employment

      • kirkmulderch@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        The page doesn’t load, bad bot.

        edit: oh it loaded after ~30 secs, but threw an error 1002 and told me to look at logs.

  • detalferous@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    Tell me you’re insecure about your AI tech without telling me you’re insecure about your AI tech.