Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by Inward on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:33PM (#38559956)

Yes, that was obvious as soon as I saw it wasn’t live I clicked off. You can train any LLM to perform a certain task(s) well and google engineers are not that dense. This was obvious marketing PR as open AI has completely made google basically obsolete with 90% of my queries can be answered without wading through LLM generated text for a simple answer.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by nirvael on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:58PM (#38560288)

>without wading through LLM generated text

...OpenAI solved this by generating LLM text for you to wade through?

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by rose_ann_ on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:00PM (#38560319)

No. It solved it by (most of the time) giving the OP and I the answer to our queries, without us needing to wade through spammy SERP links.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by kweingar on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:12PM (#38560495)

If LLMs can replace 90% of your queries, then you have very different search patterns from me. When I search on Kagi, much of the time I’m looking for the website of a business, a public figure’s social media page, a restaurant’s hours of operation, a software library’s official documentation, etc.

LLMs have been very useful, but regular search is still a big part of everyday life for me.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by balder1991 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:01PM (#38588314)

Sure we now have options, but before LLMs, most queries relied solely on search engines, often leading to sifting through multiple paragraphs on websites to find answers — a barrier for most users.

Today, LLMs excel in providing concise responses, addressing simple, curious questions like, "Do all bees live in colonies?"

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by GolfPopper on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:20PM (#38560595)

How do you tell a plausible wrong answer from a real one?

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by rose_ann_ on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:42PM (#38560851)

By testing the code it returns (I mostly use it as a coding assistant) to see if it works. 95% of the time it does.

For technical questions, ChatGPT has almost completely replaced Google & Stack Overflow for me.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by 13415 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:52PM (#38560984)

In my experience, testing code in a way that ensures that it works is often harder and takes more time than writing it.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by data-ottawa on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:29PM (#38560703)

GPT4 search is a very good experience.

Though because you don’t see the answers it doesn’t show you, it’s hard to really validate the quality, so I’m still wary, but when I look for specific stuff it tends to find it.

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