[HN Gopher] Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
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       Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
        
       Author : agnosticmantis
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2025-04-07 16:53 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.google)
        
       | polishdude20 wrote:
       | Why only Pixel 9? Surely none of the computation is on-device
       | anyways
        
         | ipsum2 wrote:
         | The second sentence contradicts your statement
         | 
         | This soon will be available to all Gemini Advanced subscribers
         | on Android devices, and today we're bringing it to more people,
         | starting with all Gemini app users on Pixel 9 and Samsung
         | Galaxy S25 devices
        
           | bytesandbits wrote:
           | curious, what is done on-device?
        
             | echelon wrote:
             | Likely nothing. Mobile devices can't do much AI stuff
             | except for the tiniest of models, and it'll likely be a
             | long time before they will be able to anything super
             | useful.
             | 
             | Edge compute is a long ways off, even on desktop without a
             | dedicated GPU. But especially on mobile.
             | 
             | You might have bumped into a media website trying to run a
             | WASM-powered onnx runtime background removal tool, or
             | perhaps a super slim LLM. You'll notice how slow these are
             | and how they can lock up your browser. That's about the
             | experience you can expect from edge compute.
             | 
             | Nvidia's proclamation that they're going to be working on
             | robotics as their next growth sector could mean more
             | innovation on the edge / low power compute front. But most
             | of the yield will come from better model architectures and
             | models designed specifically to work with compute
             | constraints.
             | 
             | For now, datacenter inference reigns supreme.
        
         | cavisne wrote:
         | You can do the same from the browser on any phone (including
         | iphone) by going through AI Studio
         | 
         | https://aistudio.google.com/live
        
       | sureglymop wrote:
       | Watching that demo video, I wonder why they chose to use that?
       | 
       | Gemini only talked about some useless surface knowledge that
       | would be forgotten quickly, whereas if she actually read the
       | Wikipedia page she would learn more and retain it better.
        
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