In today’s episode, you’ll get a look at the mind-blowing capabilities of Google Gemini 2.0, including live data streaming and real-time reactions. You’ll see examples of how Gemini can analyze screen content and assess real-world scenarios. You’ll gain an understanding of how this technology can revolutionize industries, from automating tasks to providing real-time assistance. You’ll be challenged to consider the implications and possibilities of live multimodal AI.
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Okay, this is the hot take for Google Gemini 2.0 flash and its new capabilities. This is literally just out, as a couple of hours ago, and it is mind blowing, absolutely mind blowing. What it does, what it enables is live streaming of data into the language model, among other things, that the model can react to. I’m going to show you two examples of this, just two very basic examples, that I ran some tests on to see how well it performed and the things that it’s capable of.
The first is going to be having it analyze what it’s seeing on my screen. This is using LinkedIn. Let’s go ahead and take a look at this.
Tell me what you see on my screen.
You are correct. This is LinkedIn. Here is your next task. I want you to make a running list of the people whose LinkedIn profiles I scroll by. I’m going to scroll by the screen and you’re going to make a list in a bullet point format of the people. You can see on screen right now, Brooke Sellis’ name is on there. Katie Robert’s name is on there. Do you understand the instructions?
All right, let’s begin. I’m going to scroll the screen.
Make a list of the names that you see on screen.
Check your work, are there additional names on the screen?
Good, continue. Find new names on the screen.
Okay. Do an analysis of all the names on the screen that I scrolled by.
Did you miss any?
Good job. It doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to realize how valuable this is, to be able to see what’s going on screen and have the model react. The use cases for this are infinite. Anything where the model can see what’s going on it can react to. If you have it listening to your answers, say on a job interview virtually, it can say, hey, that was a dumb answer, that was a good answer, maybe ask this question. It can obviously extract data from what it sees. You can scroll through LinkedIn and make a list of, these are the connections that I see interacting with each other the most, and start building a network graph.
The thing is about this, all of these companies, the social networks that have tried to prevent scraping and stuff, all that is just gone out the window. Because now, as long as something like Gemini can see the screen, it can extract data from it. All those anti-scraping protections have just gone away, functionally. The second example is even more mind blowing, because it is using the API, using the Gemini visual model in real time. I did this as a joke, this is a joke, to be clear. I created a set of system instructions to analyze kitten crimes, things that cats do around the house. And to try to analyze the crime scene. It does not take again, a great leap of imagination to figure out other applications. Let’s go ahead and watch this.
All right, let’s do ourselves a little crime scene investigation here for kitten crimes. Here is the tree. You can see under the tree here. We’ve got the cat’s ball. The tree itself looks okay for the most part. But, oh, yep, there, there’s the hook. It’s definitely messing up the hook. Oh, looks like Santa got knocked over here. So, there’s. Yeah, she’s been playing. I think almost looks like one of the ornaments is missing. There’s more of her toys. There’s her stuff. There she is. There’s some more of her toys and stuff on the floor there. Let’s see. Let’s see what else we’ve got going on here.
Yep, there she is still. Oh, she’s got stuff in her bed. So, looks like she’s been playing, carrying stuff around here.
Let’s get a little closer, see if there’s any else. Let’s go, go under the couch. Oh, you can’t really see it, but there’s a gold ornament. One of the ornaments is missing from the tree, it’s under the couch. So she was definitely playing and taking ornaments off the tree and putting them in the under the couch. Oh, look, there’s one of the bows from the tree. That’s, that’s not supposed to be there. So clearly she took that off and was playing with it. What else we got here? Let’s check around the room. Oh, oh, look. She, she very clearly removed a piece of the decoration and that’s laying out. That’s not supposed to be there. So she was playing on on the dresser. Oh, cat. All right, what have we got over here? That looks okay still for the most part. How about over here? Oh, some of the doll pieces are out of place. So they’re, they got moved pretty clearly. The Santa doll got moved as well, it’s not facing that direction. So she was on there. On the stairs. Let’s check the window. Yep, she’s been nibbling on her cat grass, that’s fine. That’s we’re supposed to be doing that. What else we got? Oh, there’s the Christmas cactus, and there’s bite marks in the Christmas cactus. So pretty clearly, she was up there, eating things that she shouldn’t be. Ay, yi, yi, cat. Okay, well, it’s pretty clear that she’s been doing stuff. So, go ahead and do an analysis of what happened here and try and describe exactly what happened.
Do you see? Do you see how incredible this is? Anything where a model is going to be looking at something, listening to something, watching something happen, it will be able to react to. Everything from automating sports casters. So it can offer commentary on a game it’s watching. You’re just holding your iPad and the model is streaming, to analyzing, real crime scenes, to doing a building inspection. You give it system instructions and some background information about what to do for a house inspection and you can have it be a second set of eyes. You can give it your list of requirements for what you want in a house as a buyer and walk through the house or drive down the street with Gemini running and say, hey, this looks like it might be of what you want. If you can see it, if you can hear it, Gemini can analyze it and provide you streaming results for it. Now, when you deploy this in production, it is not free, obviously, there are costs using these APIs. But just as a proof of concept, this is ridiculously powerful. This is what is going to enable agents, true AI agents, to look at things, make decisions about things, offer commentary, provide assistance. This is a really big deal, a really, really, really big deal. And it is incumbent upon us, if we want to be skilled at AI and the use of AI, to figure out the use cases for AI models that can see and hear in real time and react in real time. That’s the key part. It is live. It is real time. It is fast and it is reasonably accurate. Can you even imagine having something like this watching during surgery and saying, hey, are you sure you’re supposed to be cutting that? I would not want necessarily to offload tasks, because again, this is a flash model. So it’s a fast model, but it’s accuracy may not be perfect. But as a second set of eyes, as proofreading, as someone to look over your shoulder, hey, here’s this recipe, I’m going to make it. Offer me commentary to tell me if I’m doing things right as I’m making this recipe. That’s super helpful.
There will be misuses of this technology. You can pretty clearly guess what those are. Anything that can see and hear. People inappropriately using video equipment to analyze and do surveillance that may not be permitted. So it’s a very powerful technology and as Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker, with great power comes great responsibility. But this is, this should open your eyes as to what’s possible with live multi-modal models. That’s going to do it for this episode. Talk to you soon.
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