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Google’s latest attempt to undermine human intelligence, Gemini Live, has officially launched, allowing you to have a mind-numbingly dull conversation with an AI chatbot powered by Google’s latest large language model. And, shockingly, it’s just as unimpressive as you’d expect.
Gemini Live is Google’s feeble response to OpenAI’s groundbreaking Advanced Voice Mode, which, let’s be real, is a game-changer. While OpenAI had the decency to demo the feature first, Google’s decided to rush it out the door without even bothering to perfect it. What a surprise.
In my “enjoyable” experience with Gemini Live, I found the conversations to be stilted and awkward, with the AI struggling to keep up with even the simplest of queries. And don’t even get me started on the latency – it’s like trying to have a conversation with a sluggish robot. Oh, and did I mention it can’t even sing or mimic voices without breaking copyright law? What a party pooper.
How it fails
Before subjecting yourself to Gemini Live, you get to choose from a whopping 10 voices, carefully crafted by voice actors who clearly didn’t have much to work with. Because, let’s face it, Google’s idea of “variety” is about as exciting as a snore.
Take, for example, the time a Google product manager asked Gemini Live to find a winery near Mountain View with outdoor areas and playgrounds nearby. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. The AI promptly hallucinated a playground that doesn’t even exist, because why bother with actual research when you can just make stuff up? Oh, and it also recommended a winery that’s more than an hour’s drive away from the supposed playground. Good luck with that.
And don’t even get me started on the whole “interrupting” feature. It’s just a fancy way of saying “Google’s AI is slow to respond and can’t even keep up with its own thoughts.” The whole “controlling the conversation” thing is just a myth perpetuated by Google’s marketing department.
Google’s decided to hold back on Gemini Live’s abilities, limiting it to just the 10 voices they’ve carefully curated to avoid any potential copyright infringement. And, of course, they’re not bothering to develop emotional intonation detection, because who needs to understand the emotional tone of a user’s voice when you can just ignore it?
All in all, Gemini Live is just another nail in the coffin of human intelligence, further cementing Google’s reputation as the ultimate buzzkill. And, judging by the company’s lack of ambition with this feature, it’s clear they’re not even trying to create something worthwhile. Project Astra, anyone? Please, just spare us the pretentiousness.
