“The model is innately more capable,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, told MIT Technology Review. “It’s a platform. AI is a profound platform shift, bigger than web or mobile. And so it represents a big step for us.”
It’s a big step for Google, but not necessarily a giant leap forward for the field as a whole. Google DeepMind claims that Gemini outmatches GPT-4 on 30 out of 32 standard measures of performance. And yet the margins between them are thin.
What DeepMind has done is pull AI’s best current capabilities into one powerful package. To judge from demos, it does many things very well -- but few things that we haven’t seen before. For all the furor about the next big thing, Gemini could be a sign that we’ve reached peak AI hype. At least for now.
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