What number of instances did Google say ‘Gemini’ or ‘Android’ at I/O?

As Sundar Pichai laughed about Google’s obsession with the phrase “AI” and what number of instances it was used in the course of the Google I/O 2024 keynote, it occurred to me that it wasn’t “AI” I used to be excited about as a lot as “Gemini.”

The entire two hours felt like a unending listing of Gemini this and Gemini that, with Gemini Superior, Professional, Flash, Reside, Gems, and plenty of different variations or iterations or sub-implementations of Gemini being talked about left, proper, and middle. Oh, it was a doozy, even for somebody like me, who is kind of on high of Google’s complicated AI plans.

However I digress. The actual query is: What number of instances did Google actually say Gemini throughout these two hours?

I counted them. (Learn: I copied the YouTube transcript right into a textual content file and hit Discover. No must run a Machine Studying algorithm for one thing so primary, Mr. Pichai.) And the reply is 162.

If you happen to add the lone “Gem” and 7 additional “Gems,” that takes us as much as 170 Gemini mentions at I/O 24. That’s a incredible charge of 1.5 Geminis per minute. I can do it sooner if I simply repeat the phrase endlessly, however I’m certain I’d tire earlier than the 113 minutes have been up.

Different attention-grabbing tidbits I counted as a result of I’m a nerd like that, and I discover patterns:

• AI was certainly talked about 122 instances whole, together with two situations of the total “Synthetic Intelligence” phrase being uttered. If we add the one “AGI,” that brings us as much as 123.
• Search was talked about 87 instances — possibly this was in anticipation of OpenAI’s Search push, which didn’t materialize yesterday? Or a reminder from Google to its buyers that its fundamental product is and can at all times be Search.
• Google, the identify of the corporate, was solely mentioned 68 instances.
• Android took an excellent larger step again, with a measly 21 mentions. This was really the primary Google I/O fundamental keynote in over a decade the place Android performed such a minor position.
• The phrase Developer — at a developer convention — was mentioned 21 instances within the span of 113 minutes. All of us felt it was too developer-focused, although, didn’t we? However at a charge of as soon as each 5 minutes and 20 seconds, possibly I used to be imagining issues? Nonetheless, that does go as much as 32 instances if we embody the opposite declinations, from “develop” to “growing” and “improvement.”

Let’s give attention to the crux of the matter, although. What number of instances did Google actually say some new function or product was coming quickly or later? Effectively, listed here are the deets:

• Quickly, Google’s favourite promise, was mentioned 9 instances.
• Within the coming, the subsequent imprecise timeline promise begin, obtained 5 mentions.
• Later this 12 months, which pushes issues even additional, was mentioned 5 instances too.
• Out there at the moment or Out there now, was solely mentioned 5 instances whole.
• There have been 13 mentions of Launch in all its varieties, and 18 instances for the phrase Out there. The large query is when, the place, for whom, underneath which plan? Aaaaaaaah, it was all method too complicated.

And right here you go, of us. I’ve an excessive amount of free time on my palms, it appears, to waste it doing articles like this.