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Google AI News: Week Ending 02/23/2024

March 2, 2024

Gemini

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Gemini Feats of Strength

“6. Understanding the entire Interstellar movie transcript, and highlighting key moments. Gemini 1.5 was able to tell me the 3 most inspiring quotes from the transcript of Interstellar. https://t.co/4xakHSAch0” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759282292701253807

“5. Finding, understanding, and explaining a small figure in a long paper. Gemini 1.5 was able to extract “table 8″ from the Gemini 1.5 Pro paper by DeepMind and explain what the table meant. Again, note the details here. https://t.co/gqh4lYYUgb” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759281978338071026

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video – INSANE https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/21/gemini-pro-video/

“4. Watching, understanding, and distinguishing if an OpenAI Sora video is AI or not. Gemini 1.5 highlighted the famous Sora cat video and highlighted key factors of why it could be AI-generated. I was suprised by how in-depth it went on the response. https://t.co/F4Xj020fj2” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759281376577155288

“3. Translating language into a language spoken by less than 2000 people. Gemini 1.5 was able to translate English to Saterlandic (spoken by less than 2000 people) following a full linguistic manual at inference time. Absolutely incredible. https://t.co/kDCOpbqyD3” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759281279231492223

“2. Understanding and comparing full movie transcripts from Interstellar and Ad Astra. Gemini 1.5 was able to understand, compare, and contrast entire transcripts from both movies to help me decide which movie I should watch. https://t.co/WU2Epr8WWq” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759281119491473720

“1. Breaking down + understanding a long video I uploaded the entire NBA dunk contest from last night and asked which dunk had the highest score. Gemini 1.5 was incredibly able to find the specific perfect 50 dunk and details from just its long context video understanding! https://t.co/01iUfqfiAO” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759281003690873254

“🤯 Mind officially blown: I recorded a screen capture of a task (looking for an apartment on Zillow). Gemini was able to generate Selenium code to replicate that task, and described everything I did step-by-step. It even caught that my threshold was set to $3K, even though I… https://t.co/IU7kvnYHlt” / X – https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1760537379369304309

I’ve put a complex codebase into a single 120K-token prompt, and asked 7 questions GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5. Here are the results! : singularity – https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1atjz9v/ive_put_a_complex_codebase_into_a_single/

“First, what is Gemini 1.5 Pro? Gemini 1.5 Pro is Google DeepMind’s newest update to the free version of its LLM. It most notably has a 1M+ token context length, meaning it can understand much larger amounts of data compared to other LLMs/chatbots. https://t.co/lIjeHE8W9u” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759280407764206072

“This changes everything. Google just gave me access to Gemini 1.5. I gave it a massive 48,904 words prompt, the equivalent of 6 research paper. I then asked a very tiny detail mentioned on paper #2 and it got perfectly right: Q: “How many steps was Gflop FiT-XL/2 model… https://t.co/yibVsjDXux” / X – https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1760011179257209334

“It’s happening… Gemini 1.5 Pro is under hyped https://t.co/XnUrNOIIzj” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1760765198674083983

“🚨 BREAKING: Google just announced Gemma. Gemma is a family of lightweight and open models developed using Gemini models technology. More info and links in the comments. https://t.co/w9zO4nRmbc” / X – https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1760300684908302490

“Also related to Google’s recent speed. They’ve just disabled image generation on Gemini after it started going viral for not being able to generate Caucasians. Maybe they moved a little too fast? 😅 https://t.co/kmI8G83uGf https://t.co/ANGvQFVp2l” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1760731325563326818

“Lastly for Google’s AI updates today is the full launch of its ‘Help Me Write’ tool (powered by Gemini). The new feature allows users to generate AI writing or revisions with a single click. https://t.co/67LJopNb9H” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1760900399421149343

Google One AI Premium: Gemini access in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and more – https://blog.google/products/google-one/google-one-gemini-ai-gmail-docs-sheets/

Reddit Partnership

“Reddit and Google are partnering up to train AI models. Last week, we found out Reddit signed a $60M deal granting access to its user content for AI model training to an unknown company. Today, we found out that it was Google. Some thoughts: 1. Social media platforms are… https://t.co/xOmgixLhPB” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1760726469846946143

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AI News #21: Week Ending 02/23/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 36 Stories

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