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Re: Gemini AI

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Post by CamperBob2 » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

ACS_Solver wrote: post #267

milesward wrote: post #136

This demo is nuts: https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=8ELqSinKHdlGlNpX

To quote Gemini, what the quack! Even with the understanding that these are handpicked interactions that are likely to be among the system's best responses, that is an extremely impressive level of understanding and reasoning.

Calls for a new corollary to Clarke's Third Law. "Any sufficiently-advanced rigged demo is indistinguishable from magic."

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by MadSudaca » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

passion__desire wrote: post #95

MadSudaca wrote: post #28

It's truly astounding to me that Google, a juggernaut with decades under its belt on all things AI, is only now catching up to OpenAI which is on all camps a fraction of its size.

This is Android moment for Google. They will go full throttle on it till they become dominant in every respect.

They better. I haven’t used google search in a while.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by OfSanguineFire » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

__void wrote: post #70

it's really amazing how in IT we always recycle the same ten names... in the last three years, "gemini" refers (at least) to: - gemini protocol, the smolnet companion (gemini://geminiprotocol.net/ - https://geminiprotocol.net/ ) - gemini somethingcoin somethingcrypto (I will never link it) - gemini google's ML/AI (here we are)

Google is so big a player that they don’t even need to check if the name has already been applied to a technology. As soon as they apply it to their product name, that will become the main association for the term. And as fond as some are of the Gemini protocol, it never got widely known outside of HN/Lobster circles.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by tokai » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

I'm getting a Watson vibe from this marketing material.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by xeckr » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

SeanAnderson wrote: post #135

I asked Bard, "Are you running Gemini Pro now?" And it told me, "Unfortunately, your question is ambiguous. "Gemini Pro" could refer to..." and listed a bunch of irrelevant stuff. Is Bard not using Gemini Pro at time of writing? The blog post says, "Starting today, Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and more." (EDIT: it is... gave me a correct answer…

For the record, GPT-4 still thinks it's GPT-3.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by mpweiher » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

dpflan wrote: post #246

lkbm wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth remembering that AI is more than LLMs. DeepMind is still doing big stuff: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...

Indeed, I would think the core search product as another example of ai/ml...

The question is whether greater use of AI correlates with the declining quality of search results.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by IceHegel » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

Gemini Pro, the version live on Bard right now, feels between GPT3.5 and GPT4 in terms of reasoning ability - which reflects their benchmarks.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by nathanfig » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

dblitt wrote: post #252

milesward wrote: post #136

This demo is nuts: https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=8ELqSinKHdlGlNpX

> For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity. Seems like this video was heavily editorialized, but still impressive.

Definitely edited, pretty clear in some of the transitions. Makes me wonder how many takes were needed.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by passion__desire » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

code51 wrote: post #25

Gemini can become a major force with 7% increase in code-writing capability when GPT-4 is getting lazy about writing code these days. Better OCR with 4% difference, better international ASR, 10% decrease. Seeing Demis Hassabis name in the announcement makes you think they really trust this one.

Wasn't there a news sometimes before that Sundar and Demis didn't get along. Only after ChatGPT, Sundar got orders from above to set house in order and focus everything on this and not other fundamental research projects which Demis likes to work on.

Re: Gemini AI

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Post by avs733 » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

milesward wrote: post #136

This demo is nuts: https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=8ELqSinKHdlGlNpX

honestly - of all the AI hype demos and presentations recently - this is the first one that has really blown my mind. Something about the multimodal component of visual to audio just makes it feel realer. I would be VERY curious to see this live and in real time to see how similar it is to the video.