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Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked. A video called “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI” hit a million views over the last day, and it’s not hard to see why. The impressive demo “highlights some of our favorite interactions with Gemini,” showing how the multimodal model (that is, it understands and mixes language and visual understanding) can be flexible and responsive to a variety of inputs. To begin with, it narrates an evolving sketch of a duck from a squiggle to a completed drawing, which it says is an unrealistic color, then evinces surprise (“What the quack!”) when seeing a toy blue duck. It then responds to various voice queries about that toy, then the demo moves on to other show-off moves, like tracking a ball in a cup-switching game, recognizing shadow puppet gestures, reordering sketches of planets, and so on.

The 67-year-old gunman who killed three faculty members and wounded a fourth in a roughly 10-minute rampage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had a list of targets at the school and 150 additional rounds of ammunition, police said Thursday. Carlos Saucedo reports for KTLA 5 News at 4, Dec. 7, 2023. Details: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ap-vegas-shooter-who-killed-3-was-a-professor-who-recently-applied-for-a-job-at-unlv-ap-source-says/ KTLA 5 News - Keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947.

"A Career Death": Taylor Swift On Leaked Phone Call With Kanye West ime magazine named US pop superstar Taylor Swift as its 'Person of the Year', calling the musical force of nature the "hero of her own story." The huge $92.8 million opening earlier this year of Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour" film set the tone for the "Cruel Summer" singer's 2023. Now, in an interview with the outlet, the singer stated that it felt like it was "a career death" when Kim Kardashian leaked her phone call with rapper Kanye West. In 2016, Kim Kardashian shared audio and video of her then-husband and Taylor Swift talking on call in which the pop singer seemed to endorse the words that the rapper had written about her in his song. "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that b**** famous," Mr West wrote in the song. A spokesperson for Ms Swift refuted rumours that the singer had ever approved of the song's lyrics after it was released. There was no reference in the video where West claimed he "made her famous" or that he would call Swift a "b****" when an unedited version of the conversation was made public in 2020.