Google finally releases Gemini AI, HeyGen lets you deepfake yourself, creating a language tutor GPT, & a list of the tools we're playing with this week.
...also a must watch deep and wide ranging interview on the future of AI and its impact on us all.
Google finally releases its ChatGPT challenger
Google finally released its much anticipated ChatGPT/LLM challenger, Gemini AI, this week. We’ve all been waiting to see what the most powerful content holder on the planet was going to come up and frankly it’s cool if a little underwhelming; especially given that you can’t get your hands on it yet.
Launched in three flavours: Ultra, Pro, and Nano, each is tailored to different tasks that are designed to work on anything from big servers to your smartphone. Critically, it's a jack-of-all-trades, handling text, code, audio, images, and video.
The video above shows what it can do and frankly it’s a little creepy.
Google is weaving Gemini into all of its products like Bard, Pixel, and Search and then monetising it for enterprise users.
But what you want to know is…is it better than ChatGPT?
Of course Google thinks so and it released a bunch of ‘benchmarks’ that seem to prove this but on the key task of “General Reasoning” even Google admits it’s getting spanked by OpenAI.
Moreover, no one outside Google can actually use Gemini Ultra yet, so I'm betting this is just a show for the investors. The takeaway: Google has said “screw the safeguards”, we’re losing search to OpenAI (out of interest please take our poll on your Google user below) and we need to go hell for leather.
Either way, Google is coming for you OpenAI, so watch your back!
You can now deepfake yourself in 2 mins!
HeyGen dropped a scarily good update last week that lets you upload a video of yourself (i.e. give away your data to them) and then add text and lipsync this to the video you uploaded.
This has serious implications for any video content as it will (very) soon be impossible to work out what is fake and what is real. e.g. below is me freaking out my team of Greek developers:
On a positive note the possibilities are endless. Imagine combining a video avatar of Albert Einstein with ChatGPT to explain the Theory of Relativity (“as if I was a 5-year old”). Folks, this is going to revolutionise education!
Create your own language tutor (and frankly any consultant/expert/mentor) on ChatGPT.
Sometimes a product update drops quietly and it takes a little while to appreciate the depth of change it’s about to kickstart. Readers, ChatGPT’s GPTs (or gippities as they are affectionally being called on Reddit) and its plugin store are two such innovations.
A GPT (only available to Plus and Enterprise users) lets you upload your own docs to create a custom version of ChatGPT. The bot can then use your reference info when answering your question. So you could for example upload your accounts and ChatGPT could work out your tax return.
I spent the last week creating some personal GPTs in particular a Danish tutor with the prompt “you are a Danish teacher named Cecilia, based in Copenhagen and you will guide me on my path to Danish fluency”
I then installed the ChatGPT mobile app and added the Danish text-to-speech option so ‘Cecilia’ could respond to me in Danish.
The result was incredible! I now have a Danish tutor on my phone that understands, corrects and helps me improve my bad Danish in real time.
The mobile app is the killer app.
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Tools we’re playing with this week
Video Summary (ChatGPT plugin) - upload any video URL and get ChatGPT to give you a summary.
That’s all for this week folks. Have a great weekend and remember as scary as this stuff is…lean in to AI and don’t run away from it.
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