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Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

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Re: Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

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The Gemini 2 models support native audio and image generation but the latter won't be generally available till January. Really excited for that as well as 4o's image generation (whenever that comes out). Steerability has lagged behind aesthetics in image generation for a while now and it's be great to see a big advance in that.

Also a whole lot of computer vision tasks (via LLMs) could be unlocked with this. Think Inpainting, Style Transfer, Text Editing in the wild, Segmentation, Edge detection etc

They have a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RqFLp0TqV0

Re: Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

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Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong.

If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with confidence.

It also presents information as authoritative - locations, science facts, corporate ownership, geography - even when it's pure hallucination.

Right at the top of Google search.

edit:

I can't find the most obnoxious offending queries, but here was one I performed today: "how many islands does georgia have?".

Compare that with "how many islands does georgia have? Skidaway Island".

This is an extremely mild case, but I've seen some wildly wrong results, where Google has claimed companies were founded in the wrong states, that towns were located in the wrong states, etc.

Re: Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

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post #7

Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong. If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with confidence. It also presents information as authoritative - locations, science facts, corporate ownership, geography - even when it's pure hallucination. Right at the top of Google search. edit: I can't find the most obnoxious offending queries, but here was one…

This has happened to me zero times. :shrug:

Re: Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

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post #7

Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong. If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with confidence. It also presents information as authoritative - locations, science facts, corporate ownership, geography - even when it's pure hallucination. Right at the top of Google search. edit: I can't find the most obnoxious offending queries, but here was one…

Doesn't match my experience. It also feels like it's getting better over time.
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