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by sonium 853 days ago
I just watched the demo with the Apollo 11 transcript. (sidenote: maybe Gemini is named after the space program?).

Wouldn't the transcript or at least a timeline of Apollo 11 be part of the training corpus? So even without the 400 pages in the context window just given the drawing I would assume a prompt like "In the context of Apoll 11, what moment does the drawing refer to?" would yield the same result.

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Gemini is named that way because of the collaboration between Google brain and deep mind
Gemini is named after the spacecraft that put the second person into orbit - pretty aptly named, but not sure if this was the intention.
The second person was put by MR-3 (Mercury, not Gemini) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_travel_by_...
Google needs their Apollo.
Correct except that it spits out the timestamp
i asked chatgpt4 to identify three humorous moments in the apollo 11 transcript and it hallucinated all 3 of them (i think -- i can't find what it's referring to). Presumably it's in it's corpus, too.

> The "Snoopy" Moment: During the mission, the crew had a small, black-and-white cartoon Snoopy doll as a semi-official mascot, representing safety and mission success. At one point, Collins joked about "Snoopy" floating into his view in the spacecraft, which was a light moment reflecting the camaraderie and the use of humor to ease the intense focus required for their mission.

The "Biohazard" Joke: After the successful moon landing and upon preparing for re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, the crew humorously discussed among themselves the potential of being quarantined back on Earth due to unknown lunar pathogens. They joked about the extensive debriefing they'd have to go through and the possibility of being a biohazard. This was a light-hearted take on the serious precautions NASA was taking to prevent the hypothetical contamination of Earth with lunar microbes.

The "Mailbox" Comment: In the midst of their groundbreaking mission, there was an exchange where one of the astronauts joked about expecting to find a mailbox on the Moon, or asking where they should leave a package, playing on the surreal experience of being on the lunar surface, far from the ordinary elements of Earthly life. This comment highlighted the astronauts' ability to find humor in the extraordinary circumstances of their journey.