When they come to write the history of the AI revolution, there’s a good chance that the writers will devote many chapters to the early 2020s. Indeed, such is the pace, scale and wildness of the development, it is possible entire books will be devoted to, say, what happened in the last week or so.
This is happening now, not in some dystopian future
If you’ve not been paying attention, let me talk you through it. On 15 February Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, and Demis Hassabis, the head tech bro at DeepMind (the London-based AI company bought by Google in 2014) announced the launch of Gemini Ultra 1.5 Pro. It may sound like a slightly superior razor-blade, in truth it is a very serious machine.
To demo Gemini 1.5’s capabilities, Google fed it the entire 402 page transcript of the Apollo 11 mission. They then asked Gemini to find ‘three comedic moments’ within that text.
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