Generative AI Revolution Boosted by Google’s Gemini Technology

“Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom”

“A little more than a year ago, Google open-sourced a piece of software named DeepVariant. It was built to analyze genomes, but just days later a team of researchers outside Google used it to create something else entirely—a program for generating the most realistic, human-like robotic voices the world has ever heard.”

Indeed! Marvelous, isn’t it, how all of a sudden Google’s AI went from understanding the complicated ins and outs of human DNA to perfecting the art of making robots sound like the co-worker in the next cubicle, effortlessly asking if you’d like a cup of coffee. The technology in question, Gemini, is a shining example of Google’s relentless AI pursuits.

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane to more than a year ago when Google swung open the virtual doors to DeepVariant. This wasn’t just another piece of mundane software, oh no. It was artfully designed to dig up the mysteries of our genomes. But then, in the blink of an eye (literally, days later), a group of resourceful researchers not even on Google’s payroll made the leap from genomes to voices. A leap as unexpected as a chameleon performing Swan Lake.

The result? The most convincingly human synthetic voices. Did that get your attention?

This isn’t just any run-of-the-mill advancement in the field. It’s like The Beatles suddenly entering the rap game – amazing and disruptive. Gemini is all about achieving the holy grail of AI: generative models. The sophisticated technology has the unique superpower to predict rather than merely react. How revolutionary! Suddenly, the Honda Civics of AI want to become the Teslas without as much as a single oil change.

Gemini’s generative capabilities stretch beyond its impressive voice-mimicry feat. Language? No problem. Images? Child’s play. Even predicting human behavior? You bet. It’s like Sherlock Holmes on a double shot of espresso. Bizarre, yet strangely fitting, considering its application potential is as vast as the Milky Way itself.

Let’s be honest, it’s a bit unsettling, isn’t it? Suddenly, those dystopian sci-fi movies from the 80s don’t seem as fictitious anymore. But, it’s the price of progress, and Ain’t no stopping us now! The world is on the verge of a generative models boom, and Google, being the tech behemoth that it is, isn’t going to settle for being a mere spectator. Fasten your seatbelts! The future, promising and unpredictable as it is, has just arrived!

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-generative-ai-boom/