earlier this week Google held a glitzy
launch event unveiling Gemini as their
most advanced AI ever one that can
understand language images and speech
seamlessly they demoed some mind-blowing
applications in a slick six-minute
Hands-On video that instantly went viral
it showed Gemini engaging in shockingly
smooth conversations while analyzing
visual inputs on the fly my mind was
blown too and I rushed to make a video
calling it the chat GPT killer
but turns out Google's Grand Gemini
claims seem to be built on a bed of Lies
you're not going to believe this but the
magical realtime interactions were
apparently staged I know I could hardly
believe it myself when I first heard the
video that captured imaginations
globally turned out to be more fiction
than fact now explosive Revelations are
surfacing about the fakery and deceit
behind the scenes so brace yourselves
for some bombshell coverage on the unra
traveling Saga of Gemini's launch and
video Fabrications I'll also discuss why
Google may have done this the backlash
building up and expert opinions on the
ethics of AI marketing trust me you'll
be on the edge of your seats by the end
of this it wowed The Audience by
narrating a sketch of a duck expressing
surprise on seeing a blue rubber duck
toy answering natural language questions
about it tracking objects under cups
recognizing shadow puppet gestures and
correct ly reordering planets based on
images but soon some cracks started
emerging in Google's glossy demo turns
out the magical real-time interactions
shown in the video were too good to be
true Google has now admitted that the
conversations with Gemini were faked
using still images and text prompts the
demo was more of a hypothetical
illustration stitched together in post-
production this is not the first time
Google has staged AI demos either they
did something similar with duplex in
2018 which also provoked backlash
naturally this had led to outrage and
accusations of deception the information
called the video fake in their scathing
report titled Google's best Gemini demo
was faked Google engineering VP tried
clarifying that while shortened for
brevity all the interactions shown used
real Gemini outputs but the explanations
seem half-hearted at best it makes you
wonder if Gemini is as capable as claims
why resort to such video trickery and
risk controversy what are they hiding
multiple AI experts have exposed how
Google completely misled people about
Gemini's actual capabilities compared to
what was shown in the glitzy launch
video the slickly edited video depicts
Gemini having natural real-time
conversations as it seamlessly analyzes
visuals and speech but the behind
the-scenes reality of how the responses
were actually generated is far far less
magical I managed to access the original
Gemini interaction logs that were then
used to extrapolate the final video
turns out Gemini took a painfully slow
15 to 30 seconds to identify static
gestures and objects and images 30
seconds to identify static gestures and
objects there was no computer vision
going on like Google suggested the
system needed explicit written
instructions spelling out every detail
before it could identify imagery that
hum would grasp in a split second for
instance to get Gemini to recognize the
rock paper scissors gestures the
researchers had to manually describe the
sequence of hand shapes observed instead
of Gemini autonomously determining the
game being played so much for advanced
multimodal AI the purported voice-based
interaction was also completely
fabricated through text prompts instead
of speech recognition so essentially a
hypothetical illustration made to to
dupe the public many AI commentators
have called out Google for such
deceptive portrayal which they liken to
poisoning the well by resorting to
doctored videos instead of demonstrating
real tangible applications Google has
lost tremendous trust it also
strengthens skepticism about lofty AI
promises from Big tech companies what
Gemini does in reality versus what
Google depicted are galaxies apart
expert opinions concur that Gemini is
still like years behind chat GPT in
terms of production ready deployment
this controversy has only widened that
Gap further it certainly leaves Google
red-faced and facing criticism for
botched ethics with AI marketing it's
clear they wanted to Hype up Gemini to
counter chat GPT Mania but ended up
shooting themselves in the foot with the
failed PR stunt the Fiasco highlights
why Tech Giants must be far more
transparent about actual AI capabilities
instead of resorting to Hype bubbles