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Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

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As expected, I asked the same questions to perplexity.ai, and it gave a correct response, just with a minor disclaimer at the end explaining the risks.

What are some specific tech examples where Gemini won't answer?

Write a powershell script to download all images from a web page and crawl the site.

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Is Gemini Ultra significantly better than Bard?

Tried Bard a couple of times recently and was not very impressed tbh. Seemed to forget the context of the conversation very often. Like I had to repeat again and again to not show external links with previews and not give explanations to every little thing.

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can't even use it in Canada lol

Google says it's because of "regulatory uncertainty", but I can use GPT just fine...Is it because OpenAI doesn't care and thinks they can navigate any "regulatory uncertainty" because they have Microsoft backing them? Wouldn't Google also have the same kind of resources?

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You say it's not confusing but you've got it wrong :) Gemini is the name of the model and the service. Gemini Advanced is the service with access to Gemini Ultra.

Via the “AI Premium” subscription, obviously.

Which is in a Google One subscription

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Ok, so signed up to the free trial.

I’ve now got perplexity pro, ChatGPT pro (expiring in a day or two), copilot pro (expiring end of the month) and Gemini advanced.

And really, I don’t have much use for any of them over and above perplexity pro.

Gemini advanced doesn’t produce images- and no voice replies either (on iOS at least - UK), so I don’t really see the point of having it past the trial.

Copilot is ok, but I realise I don’t have a need for running across office apps. Turbo is quick though.

ChatGPT is fun - the custom gpts make it worth while over copilot, and I like the voice replies. So I might continue with that one.

I haven’t a need for coding with them, which is where I think they are meant to shine the most - unless I am doing something wrong?

Re: Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

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As expected, I asked the same questions to perplexity.ai, and it gave a correct response, just with a minor disclaimer at the end explaining the risks.

What are some specific tech examples where Gemini won't answer?

I asked for ways to install an APK in android outside Google Play Store, all the responses ended in security concerns about the origin of those APKs and how I should limit myself to official stores.

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Is Gemini Ultra significantly better than Bard? Tried Bard a couple of times recently and was not very impressed tbh. Seemed to forget the context of the conversation very often. Like I had to repeat again and again to not show external links with previews and not give explanations to every little thing.

Absolutely. Bard felt worse than GPT-3.5 in some aspects. Gemini Ultra looks to be on par with GPT-4 and better than GPT-4 atleast when it comes to speed, which isn't trivial when expecting longform answers

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I did a test on my field, I might have gotten an idea or two. Thanks Bard.

Really makes me wonder if chatGPT4 could have given me the same answer if I could roll seeds a few times or change the invisible preprompt.

We have 2 online AI that can do logic now, 0 offline :(

Re: Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

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From one of the earlier announcements Google has made: - Bard is that talkative text interface, a product. - Gemini is the LLM design that currently backs Bard (but also other Google AI products). - Gemini "Basic", Advanced and Ultra are different sizes of that design. This is conjecture, but "Ultra 1.0" probably indicates that they intend to release more models based on the Ultra configuration. Since that's the most…

No no, they renamed Bard to Gemini and Gemini Ultra to Ultra 1.0.

Damn they already killed bard. Pour one out for Google’s fastest branding deprecation
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