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Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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Interesting, probably "fake news" then on X. Is there a way to publicly share Gemini interactions like with chatGPT?

Apparently yes, even from the Google mobile app where I did this. https://g.co/bard/share/325bfd6d79cd

Images are broken for me.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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For those that want to give it a shot, there's a two month free trial here:

https://gemini.google.com/advanced

It was not so easy to even find out how to buy Gemini Ultra, apparently it's called "Gemini Advanced," or maybe it's called "Google One AI Premium Plan." Searching for "Gemini Ultra" doesn't give you a link to any this on any of the top page of hits on a Google Web Search, and you have to dig deep in announcements to find it.

I've been very dissatisfied with all the free Google options, but this post has given me the kick to see if the bigger models can compete.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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Apparently yes, even from the Google mobile app where I did this. https://g.co/bard/share/325bfd6d79cd

Images are broken for me.

Weird. It seems this system still has a lot of strange quirks.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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There are posts going around X that Gemini image generation is very biased toward minority preferences even when factual data and real-life statistics don't support the outputs. For example, can somebody ask Gemini to generate a picture of a typical Swedish women?

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Your job involves creating images of racially ambiguous humans?

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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How do you get Gemini Ultra to generate images? It just tells me that it can't do that yet.

"Can you draw a photo of an avocado-shaped chair with a pineapple-man sitting in it?" Came up with 4 images. You raise a good point, though... I've also asked it to use its "web search" capability for tasks and it says it doesn't have that capability, but when I ask it by implying it should do a web search, it goes ahead and does it. Weird!

It’s all statistics. In the training set, there were probably questions asking about its capabilities and it was trained to say it has less than it does. (Or it’s a bad system prompt)

There’s no internal understanding of itself or its capabilities.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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For those that want to give it a shot, there's a two month free trial here: https://gemini.google.com/advanced It was not so easy to even find out how to buy Gemini Ultra, apparently it's called "Gemini Advanced," or maybe it's called "Google One AI Premium Plan." Searching for "Gemini Ultra" doesn't give you a link to any this on any of the top page of hits on a Google Web Search, and you have to dig deep in announc…

My first question: "How do I get an API key to use gemini ultra 1.0?"

Response was that you have to request access, either through 1) your account representative, or 2) "Apply through Google: If you don't have an account representative, you may be able to apply for access through Google's channels (a specific form or process might be available)"

I don't have an account representative, of course (who does?!)

But the really interesting thing is that there was an additional annotation added to option 2, about the other channels, that said "Google Search didn’t find relevant content. Consider researching further to assess the statement." which sounds about right.

So, the model itself seems OK, if Google can figure out how to get out of its own way.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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I subscribe to both ChatGPT and Gemini Ultra. Some interesting features/experiences with Gemini... 1. I asked it to do an image search and it responded with in-line images throughout its response. This was a nice "wow" moment and very neat. 2. Its drawing/illustration style is different than DALL-E, so I use both. 3. Quality of general text responses is comparable, though I prefer ChatGPT. I imagine you can probably…

How do you get Gemini Ultra to generate images? It just tells me that it can't do that yet.

Try telling instead of asking. When I tried it the other day "Can you create a picture" gave the response "no try DALL-E instead". Then I noticed one of the example prompts was "Generate an image with an Elephant ...." It worked, as did some other random stuff I tried as long as I told it to do it not ask it to.

I just tried asking it again and asking seems to work now too.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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I've struggled to get it to generate images, especially when related to memes. For instance, I wanted to extend the "this is fine" image, but Gemini Advanced would not because it was harmful to animals. Most of the image requests I give it are back-and-forths on what it can't generate for me for some ethical or moral reason.

Re: Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, probably "fake news" then on X. Is there a way to publicly share Gemini interactions like with chatGPT?

Apparently yes, even from the Google mobile app where I did this. https://g.co/bard/share/325bfd6d79cd

broken so I re-did the main prompt myself

https://imgur.com/a/GjFCTRD

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