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I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real
sagittarius.greg.technology434points
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#69of 3,109 in 2023
Top 3%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
10 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.
Execution: 3 for, 1 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive demo showing a Gemini-style interaction is achievable.
From 3 comments
Wow, this is super cool! From the code it seems like the speech to text and text to speech are using the browser’s built-in features. I always forget those capabilities even exist!
zainhoda on HNVery cool!
op00to on HNThank you for creating this demo. This was the point I was trying to make when the Gemini launch happened. All that hoopla for no reason. Yes - GPT-4V is a beast. I’d even…
sheepscreek on HN
Objections
Demo latency and turn-taking are limited by waiting for finished speech and screenshots.
From 1 comment
The "magic" of the fake Gemini demo was the way it seemed like the LLM was continually receiving audio + video input and knew when to jump in with a response. It appeared to be…
phire on HN
Questions
What are the running costs?
From 1 comment
haha yes it was entirely possible with gpt4v. literally just screenshot and feed in the images and text in chat format, aka “interleaved”. made something similar at a hackathon…
swyx on HN
Alternatives named
Gemini demo video
From 1 comment
haha yes it was entirely possible with gpt4v. literally just screenshot and feed in the images and text in chat format, aka “interleaved”. made something similar at a hackathon…
swyx on HN