This free AI will change your life (interesting demonstration of what the updated Google Gemini can do - Video with Summary)

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[RoosterRedux]

Disclaimer: The title of this thread is the title of the video at youtube. I don't necessarily think it will change your life.

I don't like Google and have never used Gemini. That said, there were some things in the video about this new rendition of Gemini that were quite impressive.

The summary below was provided by ChatGPT in html (so I could just insert it into the thread).

Summary of the Gemini 2.0 Video Transcript

The video introduces Gemini 2.0, a cutting-edge AI assistant developed by Google, highlighting its features, applications, and real-world use cases.

Key Features of Gemini 2.0:

• Multimodal Capabilities: Combines text, voice, image, and video understanding. Users can interact via chat, voice, screen sharing, or camera input.
• Real-Time Assistance: Responds to live queries during screen sharing or camera usage. Provides explanations, translations, and recommendations.
• Advanced Model Performance: Powered by Google's latest AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash. Outperforms competitors and is free to use with no apparent usage cap.

Demonstrated Use Cases:

• Education and Learning: Explains complex topics, such as supply-demand graphs and research papers, and offers homework guidance.
• Medical Analysis: Assists in interpreting X-rays, CT scans, and medical product labels (with disclaimers to consult professionals).
• Practical Applications: Translates restaurant menus, documents, and signs in real-time; provides voice navigation for visually impaired users.
• Gaming Assistance: Offers strategies, character selection, and task completion guidance in video games.
• Coding Support: Helps debug and modify code, though less efficient than integrated coding tools like GitHub Copilot.
• Content Creation: Guides on video editing, audio transcription, and document summarization.
• Financial Insights: Simulates stock price predictions based on charts (for learning purposes, not real financial advice).

Additional Features:

• Grounding: Cites sources for responses, providing links for further verification (similar to Perplexity AI).
• Voice Assistant Mode: Engages in natural conversations, with plans for improved multilingual and lifelike voices in the future.

Strengths and Limitations:

• Strengths: Free, unlimited access; multimodal capabilities offer diverse practical uses; user-friendly interface for real-time interaction; top-ranked AI model for accuracy and performance.
• Limitations: Voice assistant capabilities are basic, lacking advanced sound effects or diverse accents; reliance on generative AI for critical tasks (e.g., medical guidance) requires caution.

Conclusion:

Gemini 2.0 is a versatile, free AI tool with impressive performance and practical applications. It sets a new standard in multimodal AI, outperforming many alternatives, and is particularly suited for education, daily tasks, and exploratory use. The video emphasizes that Gemini 2.0 could be transformative for users looking for an all-in-one AI assistant.

[RoosterRedux]

0:00 Gemini 2.0 Live Intro
1:40 How to use Gemini in AI Studio
3:01 Gemini Live for studying and learning
6:50 Video game assistance
8:46 Medical diagnosis
12:19 Help with using software
13:25 AI Studio additional settings
15:28 Financial analysis
17:29 Coding use cases
21:50 AI Portrait
22:46 Labels and instructions
25:00 Translation
25:53 Homework assistance
27:16 Pokedex
28:00 Navigation
30:10 Gemini live voice mode
36:01 Gemini 2.0 performance
38:11 Gemini multimodal testing

[BenLurkin]

offers homework guidance

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This program will do what it's programmers were paid to program into it and so it will lie, obfuscate and make sure anything you get from it has to be tested repeatedly against reality.

In this way it will indeed "change your life" because you will not know what is true and what is lies. So you will have to test everything, wasting a bunch of time.

[P.O.E.]

(Excerpt)

In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today....

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve been curious about the intellectual property/copyright issues that are going to arise with AI.

[Weirdad]

Do you have to log into Google?

If so, it is not free, you are paying with your personal information in massively complete detail.

Google is probably the world’s worst offender on this common phenomenon.

If it is free then YOU are the product being sold and sold and sold to advertising agencies and advertising purchasers. And now AI will figure you out even more in order to present you to whoever will buy.

[RoosterRedux]

One particularly interesting feature of this new Gemini AI is the way it can run on your phone and see what you see through your phone's camera.

In the video, the narrator uses his camera to capture images of various products in a pharmacy and the AI platform describes these items to him vocally.

I wonder if it can help you find your lost keys if you scan your house with your camera.

[RoosterRedux]

I see you have actually watched some of the video. Not.;-)

[RoosterRedux]

Yes. Good point.

I posted a Victor Davis Hanson article from X this morning and asked Grok if I could post the entire article on a forum without concern about copyright violations.

Grok have me a nice mini-lesson about copyrights. It suggested that I just reprint a part of the article in keeping with the Fair Use laws...or give VDH a call and get his approval.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The users will not be learning from it, it will be learning from the users.

That’s why it’s “free.”

If something is “free,” YOU are the product.

[RoosterRedux]

Very true. As has been said, "if a product is free, you are the product."

BTW, I'm not recommending that anyone go to Google and use the product. I posted the video so you could see what AI is doing.

Gemini use to be a pretty bad AI platform. But this rendition is a big step forward.

I don't use Gemini. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and Claude.

[Jamestown1630]

I haven’t used these things except as they show up in results of a search; but if you tell it to write an essay on a particular issue, does it give references to the material it consults, or can you ask it to do?

[RoosterRedux]

Some do. They are all developing so fast that it is hard to keep up with all that they do. And they are all different.

[RoosterRedux]

In this way it will indeed "change your life" because you will not know what is true and what is lies. So you will have to test everything, wasting a bunch of time.

If you do research on Google, you would be wise to double check the information you find with multiple sources.

The same principle works with AI. Many of them provide sources so you can evaluate the content they provide.

The difference between a search engine and AI is that you carry on a conversation about what you want it to do. You give it feedback and refine would questions as you go along.

BTW, no one can program AI to anticipate every possible question you might ask. That's not the way AI works.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Demonstrated Use Cases:”

Huh? Where is “Making cool memes”? Where is “Great AI Porn”?

[RoosterRedux]

If so, it is not free, you are paying with your personal information in massively complete detail.

All you have to do is create a fake gmail address.

Google doesn't know who you are unless you tell them...and why would you do that?

[libertylover]

Limitations: Voice assistant capabilities are basic, lacking advanced sound effects or diverse accents; reliance on generative AI for critical tasks (e.g., medical guidance) requires caution.

Not to mention they'll track even more of what they know about you already and sell that info to ... Lord knows who.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I don't want anything to do with it.

The Deep State will use this technology to quietly steer you down their paths.

[Brian Griffin]

I just used Copilot to get museum information about Asti, Italy.

It listed about five places with a one sentence description for each and urged me to utilize Trip Advisor.