AI keeps getting smarter. Google’s launch of Gemini, a multimodal AI meant to compete with GPT-4, included a revealing video of a conversation with the intelligence. Gemini, like GPT-4, can handle multiple modes of input, including text, code, image and audio. Its reasoning skills — based on what it is asked and what it sees alone — are stunning. When its human counterpart draws an electric guitar and drums, it suggests some hair metal and throws some on the playlist; it creates intuitive games on the fly and recognizes a magic trick; and it adds captions to a drawing based on what someone on a rollercoaster would be saying (“whee!”). Altogether, it’s a seamless assistant experience that has us asking: How much longer till it’s savvier than us?
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Our Editors’ Favorite Products of 2023
Álvaro BernisFor as forward-looking as we are at Gear Patrol, we’re also a reflective bunch. Hence the GP100, our annual roundup of the hundred products our editors swooned hardest for this year. From Muppet-inspired timepieces to iconic vehicles re-envisioned for a new era, each product in this collection earned its spot by making an outsized impact on its industry — and product culture as a whole.
