Is the new Multimodal Gemini 2.0 the end of YouTube video tutorials?

[p6x]

I don't know about you guys, but each time I stumble to do something using one of my installed software on my computer, I turn to YouTube, and I look for a tutorial simply typing the name of the application, and the feature that I am looking for.

Sure enough, a bunch of videos are selected, and I start combing through all the content which is not directly related to the very specific issue I want to solve.

I appreciate that all these guys making those videos are actually trying to use their knowledge to earn money through subscription to their channel.

YouTube has about four billion videos stored; out of those four, 1 billion videos are strickly educational, tutorial, what not.

In December 2024, Google released https://ai.google.dev/api/multimodal-live;

Just watch the video below to understand what it can do. I have not yet tried it myself, but I am planning to.

Basically, you can use Gemini 2.0 to teach you anything interactively. Of course, it is not yet 100% accurate yet, but it will only get better.

Maybe in the future, it will also be able to teach you how to work on your motorcycle. Like telling you step by step what to do, which tool are required, what spares you should ordered ahead of time, which companies are selling the spares, the tool.

At present, it works seemlessly with software. You can for example ask Gemini how to make a photo slideshow using iMovie on your Mac. At the moment, Gemini 2.0 is free; obviously, once it is out of the Beta phase, it will go to subscription.

It is my understanding that ChatGPT can already code Pithon on your behalf. I have been told by a colleague that simple software development can be coded by ChatGPT. The Software developer still need to plug it in into the existing code. But you can bet that in a few years, this will not even be required any longer...

 

Edited January 12 by p6x

[audiomick]

It's probably inevitable, but I don't want to use it. I don't like machines that talk to me as if they were really thinking identities. AI is still a long way off from being "real" intelligence. It just does what it was programmed to do, based on information that the programming directed it to collect. f

[gstallons]

I was watching a video the other day and the  AI voice butchered the words so bad if it did not have subtitles  I would have been lost.