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AI Applied: Covering AI News, Interviews and Tools - ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic

Google Launches Imagen 2 and New AI Tools

Feb 12, 2024
Google recently launched Imagen 2 and new AI tools. The podcast explores these innovations and discusses Google's struggle to compete with Meta and OpenAI. It also highlights the importance of avoiding overpromising and underdelivering in the industry. The chapter compares Google's new AI tools to Meta's open-source strategy and expresses frustration with Google's lack of availability and trustworthiness in their demos. The speakers also discuss developers' experiences with AI technologies and express concerns about Google's approach to AI and search results.
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Quick takeaways

  • Overpromising and underdelivering can have negative consequences, as seen in Google's recent stock performance.
  • Google, a company with abundant resources and talent, is facing difficulties in the rapidly evolving AI space.

Deep dives

Google's New Image Generators and AI Tools

Google has made major announcements about their new image generators and AI tools. These releases have generated a lot of buzz, with people discussing the Gemini Pro update, the image generator, and the new music generator. While the Google image generator showed promise, it was not necessarily groundbreaking, as other platforms like Microsoft have had similar features for months. Additionally, Google's other AI capabilities, like the Bard language model, have received mixed reviews, with some users experiencing inconsistent and unsatisfactory results. These underwhelming advancements have impacted Google's stock performance, with a 7.5% drop in the last five days, highlighting the potential challenges the company faces in the highly competitive AI landscape.

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