As if it were two fighters fighting in a ring, OpenAI yesterday launched a direct blow to one of the services that Google has been working on for many years, Assistant. This was fueled a few hours after the celebration of I/O 2024, and with a video in which shows Gemini oral skills and your ability to “understand what you see.”
OpenAI’s footwork took it partly by surprise, and arguably Google wasn’t expecting it that the blow came from a conversational AI that expresses emotions and it is similar to that of the movie Her, since last week Reuters disclosed that the company that owns GPT-4o had prepared a search engine with ChatGPT. And now, looking back, the ironic laugh of Bruce Willis, the American actor, can easily be drawn in many of his films when we observe everything that happened.
We’ve yet to learn the next plans for this first episode of what appears to be a major epic battle TV series featuring a tech giant and one that’s poised to become one if it’s able to return the continuous blows that Today you will receive from Google at I/O 2024, and the following ones which remain to be undergone.
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It’s completely unclear what will happen this afternoon when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage at the keynote, but the video the tech giant showed from its X account (formerly Twitter) gives some clues on what to expect from Gemini. If OpenAI named GPT-4o as “Omnimodel”, Gemini is now a multimodal artificial intelligence.
Which means that can incorporate text, audio and images into the interaction with the user. Quite similar to what was seen in one of the latest updates of Meta’s Ray Bans, in the video you can see how he has a conversation with Gemini while he describes everything ‘what he sees » through the mobile camera. It expresses emotions, but not as fluidly as ChatGPT in the various demos presented yesterday.
Google’s move this afternoon must be precise and Gemini must arrive with the possibility of using voice in a demonstration or an imminent update. It’s difficult for this to happen, although you never know, because in just over a year The tech giant was quick to regain ground against OpenAI and his ChatGPT, which always presents itself with that special footwork that heralds the future of AI.
