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Post by FrinkleFrankle »

pnt12 wrote: post #281
marcus_holmes wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google are well-known, like Meta, for making products that never achieve any kind of traction, and are cancelled soon after launch. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never managed to get Gemini to actually do anything useful (and I'm a regular user of other AI tools). I don't know what metric it gets into the top 2 on, but I've found it almost completely useless.

I agree they aren't building great user products anymore but gemini is solid (maybe because it's more an engineering/data achievement than a ux thing? the user controls are basically a chat window). I asked for a deep research about a topic and it really helped my understanding backed with a lot of sources. Maybe it helps that their search is getting worse, so Gemini looks better in comparison. But nowadays even kagi…

Kagi has their own AI assistant that let's you choose any model from the major, and some not so major, providers. You can even hop between them I the same chat. It is also able to search for results using Kagi. This includes any lenses you could configure.

It's worked extremely well for me. Their higher subscription was less than ChatGPT + Kagi. I haven't used Gemini on its own interface yet to compare, though.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by marcus_holmes »

thebytefairy wrote: post #211
marcus_holmes wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google are well-known, like Meta, for making products that never achieve any kind of traction, and are cancelled soon after launch. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never managed to get Gemini to actually do anything useful (and I'm a regular user of other AI tools). I don't know what metric it gets into the top 2 on, but I've found it almost completely useless.

Please share an example. Your 'almost completely useless' claim runs counter to any model benchmark you could choose.

The most spectacular failure was when I asked it to make a logo for a project. The project has "cogs" in the title but that refers to Cost of Goods Sold not the physical object, so I specified that it should not include a cog a in the logo. Of course, it included a cog in the logo.

I asked it to help me create a business plan. Partway through it switched to Indonesian language, for no reason I could see. Then, after about two hours work on the plan, with about 200K tokens in the context, it stopped outputting anything reasonable.

I have tried to get it to help with Google Sheets formulae about a dozen times so far. Not once has it actually got anything right. Not once.

It's serviceable as a chatbot, but completely useless if you try to get it to actually do anything.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by Anamon »

Ancapistani wrote: post #354
dreamcompiler wrote: post #187

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Oh my god. How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows? I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?

It was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. F…

Yeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off

I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.

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Post by Anamon »

rapind wrote: post #332
pera wrote: post #2

There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...

In fairness to Zuck, he spends most of his time hunting with his crossbow these days.

What brand of gear does he use?

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

deadbabe wrote: post #98
ajcp wrote: post #78

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During that first iPhone demo they also had a portable cell tower (cell on wheels) just off-stage to mimic a better signal strength than it was capable of. NYTimes write-up on the whole thing is worth the read [0]. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytim...

There was one demo where Steve Jobs told everyone to turn off their WiFi.

It was the demo of FaveTime with the iPhone 4 IIRC
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