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Google's just demoed its multimodal Gemini Live feature, and I'm worried for Rabbit and Humane


With its snappy, conversational AI, Google's latest Gemini tool brings AI camera tech squarely back to the smartphone.

Max Buondonno/ZDNETAt its much-anticipated annual I/O event, Google this week announced some exciting functionality to its Gemini AI model, particularly its multi-modal capabilities, in a pre-recorded video demo. Google teased this functionality the day before I/O in a tweet that showed off Gemini correctly identifying the stage at I/O, then giving additional context to the event and asking follow-up questions of the user. In the demo video at I/O, the user turns on their smartphone's camera and pans around the room, asking Gemini to identify its surroundings and provide context on what it sees.

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