How's the pelican?
Gemini 3
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Re: Gemini 3
#272It's disappointing there's no flash / lite version - this is where Google has excelled up to this point.
Maybe they're slow rolling the announcements to be in the news more
Re: Gemini 3
#273Well, I tried a variation of a prompt I was messing with in Flash 2.5 the other day in a thread about AI-coded analog clock faces. Gemini Pro 3 Preview gave me a result far beyond what I saw with Flash 2.5, and got it right in a single shot.[0] I can't say I'm not impressed, even though it's a pretty constrained example. > Please generate an analog clock widget, synchronized to actual system time, with hands that upd…
Having seen the page the other day this is pretty incredible. Does this have the same 2000 token limit as the other page?
Re: Gemini 3
#274Every big new model release we see benchmarks like ARC and Humanity's Last Exam climbing higher and higher. My question is, how do we know that these benchmarks are not a part of the training set used for these models? It could easily have been trained to memorize the answers. Even if the datasets haven't been copy pasted directly, I'm sure it has leaked onto the internet to some extent.
But I am looking forward to trying it out. I find Gemini to be great as handling large-context tasks, and Google's inference costs seem to be among the cheapest.
Re: Gemini 3
#275> The Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month, more than 70% of our Cloud customers use our AI, 13 million developers have built with our generative models, and that is just a snippet of the impact we’re seeing Not to be a negative nelly, but these numbers are definitely inflated due to Google literally pushing their AI into everything they can, much like M$. Can't even search google without getting an AI re…
Yeah my business account was forced to pay for an AI. And I only used it for a couple of weeks when Gemini 2.5 was launched, until it got nerfed. So they are definitely counting me there even though I haven't used it in like 7 months. Well, I try it once every other month to see if it's still crap, and it always is.
I hope Gemini 3 is not the same and it gives an affordable plan compared to OpenAI/Anthropic.
Re: Gemini 3
#276I asked it to summarize an article about the Zizians which mentions Yudkowsky SEVEN times. Gemini-3 did not mention him once. Tried it ten times and got zero mention of Yudkowsky, despite him being a central figure in the story. https://xcancel.com/xundecidability/status/19908286970881311... Also, can you guess which pelican SVG was gemini 3 vs 2.5? https://xcancel.com/xundecidability/status/19908113191723213...
He's not a central figure in the narrative, he's a background character. Things he created (MIRI, CFAR, LessWrong) are important to the narrative, the founder isn't. If I had to condense the article, I'd probably cut him out too. Summarization is inherently lossy.
> Eliezer Yudkowsky is a central figure in the article, mentioned multiple times as the intellectual originator of the community from which the "Zizians" splintered. His ideas and organizations are foundational to the entire narrative.Re: Gemini 3
#277> Whether you’re an experienced developer or a vibe coder I absolutely LOVE that Google themselves drew a sharp distinction here.
You realize this is copy to attract more people to the product, right?
Re: Gemini 3
#278It's amazing to see Google take the lead while OpenAI worsens their product every release.
Re: Gemini 3
#279Well, I tried a variation of a prompt I was messing with in Flash 2.5 the other day in a thread about AI-coded analog clock faces. Gemini Pro 3 Preview gave me a result far beyond what I saw with Flash 2.5, and got it right in a single shot.[0] I can't say I'm not impressed, even though it's a pretty constrained example. > Please generate an analog clock widget, synchronized to actual system time, with hands that upd…
holy shit! This is actually a VERY NICE clock!
Re: Gemini 3
#280I truly do not understand what plan to use so I can use this model for longer than ~2 minutes. Using Anthropic or OpenAI's models are incredibly straightforward -- pay us per month, here's the button you press, great. Where do I go for this for these Google models?
Yeah, it truly is an outstandingly bad UX. To use Gemini CLI as a business user like I would Codex or Claude Code, how much and how do I pay?
You can install the Gemini CLI (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) but assign a "paid" API key to it (unless you pay for Gemini Ultra).