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Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#21
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, from my end, I am still seeing Palm (EU).

Gemini is not available in the EU is it?

> Just as for Bard, Europe will need to wait for Gemini

https://thenextweb.com/news/google-gemini-ai-unavailable-eur...

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#22
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bard? It is powered by Palm-2, not Gemini.

As of now Bard is powered by Gemini Pro. https://bard.google.com/updates

In my language/country I see no mention of Gemini there. Or any model name, really.

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#23
post #16

Typical Google UX. Get API key, takes me to makersuite, where I get a create API key button that errors. Then when I reload the page, I get a straight forbidden page. HP said it best, you have to isolate the team from the bigger company to allow them to work as an effective startup. How can solo-preneurs provide better UX & onboarding while doing 16 other jobs than Google can with multi-billion dollar budgets?

GCP console’s UX is somehow worse than AWS’s, which is pretty crazy

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#24
post #12

I can only access https://makersuite.google.com/ when using a VPN to the US. Also, it spams popups that get blocked by Firefox. Some basic prompts, which are answered correctly most of the time by ChatGPT4: There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house? > 29 books Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have? > Three I…

Asking these to GPT3.5 has been an utterly frustrating experience, lol. I guess gemini is at this level of intelligence right now, not GPT4... rigged demos notwithstanding;)

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#25
post #16

Typical Google UX. Get API key, takes me to makersuite, where I get a create API key button that errors. Then when I reload the page, I get a straight forbidden page. HP said it best, you have to isolate the team from the bigger company to allow them to work as an effective startup. How can solo-preneurs provide better UX & onboarding while doing 16 other jobs than Google can with multi-billion dollar budgets?

You reminded me of how much hatred I had for Google binding all their products language (including Workspaces) to my account language, with no chance to be changed (even if I updated the account settings).

How can they be so unaware of the fact that people will often prefer english because that's the language with most tutorials/guides/resources and makes interoperability in cross-country remote companies simpler?

Don't they want to sell cloud products to global companies?

How am I supposed to help or receive help from my coworkers?

I have lost days and days trying to set Google Sheets in English and I have been stuck with the Italian version no matter how many changes I did to my Sheets or Google account settings.

There's a 5000+ comments/upvotes discussion on their forums and they simply don't give two damns, I don't think humans even see those threads.

Didn't feel so stressed using a software since programming in Liferay professionally or trying to figure out Autodesk products a decade ago for hobby 3d modelling..

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#27
post #12

I can only access https://makersuite.google.com/ when using a VPN to the US. Also, it spams popups that get blocked by Firefox. Some basic prompts, which are answered correctly most of the time by ChatGPT4: There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house? > 29 books Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have? > Three I…

FWIW, Gemini Pro is equivalent to GPT 3.5, so expected

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#28
post #12

I can only access https://makersuite.google.com/ when using a VPN to the US. Also, it spams popups that get blocked by Firefox. Some basic prompts, which are answered correctly most of the time by ChatGPT4: There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house? > 29 books Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have? > Three I…

Asking these to GPT3.5 has been an utterly frustrating experience, lol. I guess gemini is at this level of intelligence right now, not GPT4... rigged demos notwithstanding;)

No joke, even if trying to correct GTP3.5 it still gives a nonsense answer:

> I apologize for any confusion caused by my previous response. Reading a book doesn't physically remove it from your house. The assumption I made was a misunderstanding. If you read a book, it is still in your house unless you lend it, give it away, or otherwise remove it.

> So, if you started with 31 books and read 2 over the weekend, you would have 31 - 2 = 29 books still in your house.

Re: Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio

#30
post #16

Typical Google UX. Get API key, takes me to makersuite, where I get a create API key button that errors. Then when I reload the page, I get a straight forbidden page. HP said it best, you have to isolate the team from the bigger company to allow them to work as an effective startup. How can solo-preneurs provide better UX & onboarding while doing 16 other jobs than Google can with multi-billion dollar budgets?

You reminded me of how much hatred I had for Google binding all their products language (including Workspaces) to my account language, with no chance to be changed (even if I updated the account settings). How can they be so unaware of the fact that people will often prefer english because that's the language with most tutorials/guides/resources and makes interoperability in cross-country remote companies simpler? Do…

Their language handling was fubar'd years ago. There was a time that you could open the Google.com home page passing some query strings and it would let you search in English with non localized results BS. Years later, and Google/YouTube don't care. YouTube's search is abysmal and will shove shitty results that have nothing to do with your search and the language that your Google account is set up.
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