What number of occasions 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 occasions 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 thinking 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, Stay, Gems, and plenty of different variations or iterations or sub-implementations of Gemini being talked about left, proper, and heart. Oh, it was a doozy, even for somebody like me, who is kind of on prime of Google’s complicated AI plans.

However I digress. The actual query is: What number of occasions 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 have to run a Machine Studying algorithm for one thing so fundamental, Mr. Pichai.) And the reply is 162.

Should you add the lone “Gem” and 7 additional “Gems,” that takes us as much as 170 Gemini mentions at I/O 24. That’s a improbable price of 1.5 Geminis per minute. I can do it quicker if I simply repeat the phrase endlessly, however I’m certain I’d tire earlier than the 113 minutes had 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 occasions complete, 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 occasions — 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 primary product is and can all the time be Search.
• Google, the title of the corporate, was solely mentioned 68 occasions.
• Android took an excellent larger step again, with a measly 21 mentions. This was actually the primary Google I/O primary keynote in over a decade the place Android performed such a minor position.
• The phrase Developer — at a developer convention — was mentioned 21 occasions within the span of 113 minutes. All of us felt it was too developer-focused, although, didn’t we? However at a price 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 occasions if we embrace the opposite declinations, from “develop” to “creating” and “improvement.”

Let’s concentrate on the crux of the matter, although. What number of occasions did Google actually say some new characteristic or product was coming quickly or later? Nicely, listed here are the deets:

• Quickly, Google’s favourite promise, was mentioned 9 occasions.
• Within the coming, the subsequent obscure timeline promise begin, obtained 5 mentions.
• Later this yr, which pushes issues even additional, was mentioned 5 occasions too.
• Accessible right now or Accessible now, was solely mentioned 5 occasions complete.
• There have been 13 mentions of Launch in all its kinds, and 18 occasions for the phrase Accessible. The massive 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 fingers, it appears, to waste it doing articles like this.