Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 by zippothrowaway on Thursday February 15, 2024 @11:21AM (#39384587)

I've always been suspicious of any announcement from Demis Hassabis since way back in his video game days when he did a monthly article in Edge magainze about the game he was developing. "Infinite Polygons" became a running joke in the industry because of his obvious snake-oil. The game itself, Republic [1], was an uninteresting failure.

He learned how to promote himself from working for Peter "Project Milo" Molyneux and I see similar patterns of hype.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic:_The_Revolution#Marke...

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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 by pradn on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:02PM (#39389710)

The line between delusional and visionary is thin! I know I'm too grounded in "expected value" math to do super outlier stuff like starting a video game company...

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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 by Qwero on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:22PM (#39390013)

Funny read about his game.

Nonetheless while still underwhelming in comparison to gpt-4 (excluding this announcement as I haven't tried it yet), alpha go, zero and especially fold were tremendous!

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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 by COAGULOPATH on Thursday February 15, 2024 @07:01PM (#39391096)

Yeah, it's funny. I used to think "Demis Hassabis...where have I heard that name before?" And then I realized I saw him in the manuals for old Bullfrog games.

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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 by rreichman on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:50PM (#39402779)

And yet - AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold...

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