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Re: Gemini AI

#381
Bard now is pretty fast & gives pretty good code answers. I haven't been able to use Claude in EU, but I can actually use this for work, not GPT-4 level, but impressive. Looking forward to try Ultra.

One thing I like from GPT, even though it's overall slower, is that you see it typing, this allows you to already process things and see if it's going in the right direction.

Re: Gemini AI

#382
I tried to do some straightforward code conversions using Bard and it flat out refuses to write any code and instead only explains what to do. Whereas GPT gives code as much as it can although it struggles to complete the full conversion. (Keeps forgetting the instructions)

Re: Gemini AI

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

Yes definitely feels like day 2 at Google.

The only people staying around are too comfortable with their Google paycheck to take the dive and build something themselves from the ground up.

Re: Gemini AI

#384

Bard still not available in Canada so i can't use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Wonder why Google is the only one that can't release their model here.

Of course you can. Even I can use it here in Russia.

Re: Gemini AI

#386
If it's so great make it available to try, I am not interested in all this marketing spiel. google has turned into a company that talks a lot in public about how great it is instead of just putting out great products.

Re: Gemini AI

#387
Fancy name, fancy website, charts, people cosplaying as Steve Jobs. This is embarrassing. Hey Google, you guys are presenting a LLM that is at best as good as ChatGPT, but you are like a year late to the party. Maybe shut the f*ck up, marketing wise, and just get people to use it. Bard is just bad right now, let Gemini convince people instead of a fancy marketing page.

Re: Gemini AI

#388

It’s funny as I’m watching the multimodal demo, the feature I’m hoping for the most is less alignment. I think the crippling of GPT has made it so much less useful than it could be. I don’t know if Google would take a bigger chance with it being the second player and having to catch up but that would be one hell of a differentiator. Less policing. Maybe they could get away with it because they have data on what peopl…

They definitely will not. Google will be much more on the side of over-alignment than OpenAI. It's smart business given the current cultural environment we are in, but it's also deeply ingrained in Google's culture. It's sort of a Blackstone's ratio, better that a hundred bad answers be given than that one offensive thing be said.

Every cultural environment, not just the current one, would demand some sort of alignment.

Re: Gemini AI

#389

According to the technical paper ( https://goo.gle/GeminiPaper ), Gemini Nano-1, the smallest model at 1.8B parameters, beats Whisper large-v3 and Google's USM at automatic speech recognition. That's very impressive.

and whisper large is 1.55B parameters at 16bits instead of 4 bits, I believe. so nano-1 weights are ~1/3rd the size. Really impressive if these benchmarks are characteristic of performance
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