A day after airing a 6-minute video of its new multimodal AI program called Gemini, Google received flak after reportedly admitting to Bloomberg that the video was staged or a simulation, and not an actual demonstration of the Gemini program in real time. Google also confirmed that “the demo wasn’t conducted in real time, but instead used still images and fed text prompts that Gemini responded to.”
When asked by CNBC for comment, Google replied: ““The video is an illustrative depiction of the possibilities of interacting with Gemini, based on real multimodal prompts and outputs from testing. We look forward to seeing what people create when access to Gemini Pro opens on December 13.”