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Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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Curious how this will fare when playing Pokemon Red.

Gemini 3 Pro has been playing Pokemon Crystal (which is significantly harder than Red) in a race against Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://www.twitch.tv/gemini_plays_pokemon

Gemini 3 Pro has been making steady progress (12/16 badges) while Gemini 2.5 Pro is stuck (3/16 badges) despite using double the turns and tokens.

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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post #17

Curious how this will fare when playing Pokemon Red.

Yeah the "High frame rate understanding" feature caught my eye, actual real time analysis of live video feeds seems really cool. Also wondering what they mean by "video reasoning/thinking"?

I don’t think it’s real time? The videos were likely taken previously.

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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post #15

Interesting. When i asked Gemini 3 Pro to generate a Infographic from my personal accounting sheet, it first failed to generate anything except a black background, then it generated something where it mixed different languages in a non-sensical way, with obvious typos and irrelevant information grouping. It's certainly a leap forward in OCR, rendering classic OCR useless.

That's more of an issue with Nano Banana Pro than with Gemini 3 Pro.

What's the difference? I thought the vision ai component of gemini 3 is called nano banana?

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's more of an issue with Nano Banana Pro than with Gemini 3 Pro.

What's the difference? I thought the vision ai component of gemini 3 is called nano banana?

That’s about generating images, the other side is about understanding images.

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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post #26

"Gemini 3 Pro represents a generational leap from simple recognition to true visual and spatial reasoning." Prompt: "wine glass full to the brim" Image generated: 2/3 full wine glass. True visual and spatial reasoning denied.

Gemini 3 Pro is not Nano Banana Pro, and the image generation/model that decodes the generated image tokens may not be as robust.

The thinking step of Nano Banana Pro can refine some lateral steps (i.e. the errors in the homework correction and where they are spatially in the image) but it isn't perfect and can encounter some of the typical pitfalls. It's a lot better than Nano Banana base, though.

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's more of an issue with Nano Banana Pro than with Gemini 3 Pro.

What's the difference? I thought the vision ai component of gemini 3 is called nano banana?

i assumed nano banana was just a tool that gemini 3 used though i don't know

Re: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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The document is paints a super impressive picture, but the core constraint of “network connection to Google required so we can harvest your data” is still a big showstopper for me (and all cloud-based AI tooling, really). I’d be curious to see how well something like this can be distilled down for isolated acceleration on SBCs or consumer kit, because that’s where the billions to be made reside (factories, remote sit…

Arpanet was supposed to be decentralized. Now everyone wants to centralize everything so in a war it is sufficient to strike 100 data centers and the whole tethered economy collapses.

That is called progress.

EDIT: You can downvote the truth but still no one wants your "AI" slop.

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