Capabilities of Deepmind's Gemini model

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/HumanSeeing on 2023-06-27 09:03:27+00:00.

So for months now after the release of Chat-GPT and GPT-4 i was wondering about deepmind and what they are up to. Since they have been responsible for so many amazing breakthroughs from AlphaGo to AlphaZero to Gato to being able to play dota and starcraft better than any humans to Alphafold 1 and 2 and many more projects.

Since the stated goal for Deepmind by Demis Hassabis is also the creation of beneficial AGI for all of humanity. I was kind of worried why they were so quiet and did they really have nothing to compete with OpenAI. Because given the choice i have alwas seen Demis as way more down to earth, wise and genuine. And would way rather have him at the lead of creating AGI.

Hearing that google just merged together Deepmind and the Google brain project also did not fill me with optimism, since they are pretty different teams with different cultures.

But now we finally have some updates and i am very excited for their new project. We don't know a whole lot about it yet, but here are some quotes on it.

"At a high level you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models," Hassabis says. "We also have some new innovations that are going to be pretty interesting." Gemini was first teased at Google's developer conference last month, when the company announced a raft of new Al projects.

Gemini is still in development, a process that will take a number of months, Hassabis says. It could cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, said in April that creating GPT-4 cost more than $100 million.

So given that this is a pretty unique and different approach. What new capabilities and qualities do you think this system might have?