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Recently, Google, a well-known American technology giant, admitted that its AI technology demonstration scene was fake, and no matter how the company justifies it, it cannot hide the truth.
Is this Google's mistake? Or is it a tragedy for American technology? Will we see more and more fraud in American technology?
On December 6, Google announced the launch of Gemini, the "largest, strongest, and most versatile" new large language model. Gemini will be the first large model to run directly on a mobile phone and will first be applied to Google's Android-native smartphones and chatbot products.
This product is clearly a benchmark against ChatGPT, which has been in the limelight this year, but Google claims that Gemini has far more capabilities than ChatGPT, and is the first model to surpass human experts in testing.
With its powerful performance, Gemini became an overnight hit and attracted the attention of Wall Street.
On December 7, the share price of Google's parent company Alphabet jumped 5.31%, ushering in its best day since August 29 this year, with a total market capitalization of $1.72 trillion.
However, Google overturned too quickly this time, and it was planted in the hands of almighty netizens.
After the launch of Gemini, Google released a six-minute demo video that showed astonishing thinking and language skills, which even ChatGPT is nowhere near the point.
The video sparked an exclamation from the global tech community, and countless admirers around the world once again bowed to the U.S. level of technology.
We're not exaggerating at all, if you don't believe it, you can search online and see how some tech bloggers in China touted the product in those days, just as they once touted ChatGPT.
However, the good times didn't last long, and within two days, some netizens found a problem from the text disclaimer at the beginning of the video, thinking that it might imply that the video showed a carefully selected good result, not recorded in real time, but edited.
Someone has already started analyzing the video technically, and Google clearly knows that there is no way to hide the truth, and they explained the multimodal interaction process in a blog post, indirectly acknowledging that only a patchwork of static images and multiple prompts can achieve the effect in the demo video.
Immediately public opinion was in an uproar! It is Google! It is one of the three giants of US technology, the other two being Microsoft and Apple, which are symbols of the world's leading technology in the United States.
However, what is even more outrageous about Google is the explanation of the company's executives about this matter, which is simply unacceptable.
Google's vice president, Oriol Vignals, changed his tune after speaking a lot of technical language that many people don't understand, meaning that this is to show what perfect AI technology looks like, and to motivate developers.
What he means is that video is the ideal of AI, and Google's developers simply haven't done it, so it's important to motivate them to do it.
This matter is still fermenting, and I don't know how Google will end.
This Google AI fraud incident happened very suddenly, because this is really rare in the American technology industry in the past, or even never seen before, so many people have not reacted, what is going on?
This reminds us of the recent years of counterfeiting scandals in Japanese manufacturing, including the famous Hitachi, which has exhausted all kinds of crooked ways in order to pass the test data, including forcibly changing the inspection results, changing the inspection conditions, and so on.
In addition, Mitsubishi Electric was exposed to the falsification of transformer inspection data, involving the operation of at least nine Japanese nuclear power plants, no wonder Japan's nuclear facilities are so unsafe and have frequent accidents.
Fundamentally, this is the result of manufacturing capacity being caught up by other countries, and even after the ability in some aspects has deteriorated, it has to be forcibly slapped into a swollen face and become fat.
You used to be the global leader, and now that others are catching up, you have to make up more advanced lies to cover up the truth and increase your competitiveness.
Can we assume that Google, under the pressure of the global AI boom, especially under the competition between ChatGPT and its Chinese rivals, is trying to fabricate lies and create the illusion of leadership?
Counterfeiting is as addictive as taking drugs, because you can easily surpass it if you find it. In the future, there may be more and more in the United States, and if there is a first time, there will be a second time, and the myth will be shattered.