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Re: Gemini 3

#521

I would like to try controlling my browser with this model. Any ideas how to do this. Ideally I would like something like openAI's atlas or perplexity's comet but powered by gemini 3.

Seems like their new Antigravity IDE specifically has this built in. https://antigravity.google/docs/browser

Re: Gemini 3

#522

I asked it to analyze my tennis serve. It was just dead wrong. For example, it said my elbow was bent. I had to show it a still image of full extension on contact, then it admitted, after reviewing again, it was wrong. Several more issues like this. It blamed it on video being difficult. Not very useful, despite the advertisements: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1990865172152660047

I’ve never seen such a huge delta between advertised capabilities and real world experience. I’ve had a lot of very similar experiences to yours with these models where I will literally try verbatim something shown in an ad and get absolutely garbage results. Do these execs not use their own products? I don’t understand how they are even releasing this stuff.

Re: Gemini 3

#523
It's joeover for openai and antrophic. I have been using it for 3 hours now for real work and gpt-5.1 and sonnet 4.5 (thinking) does not come close.

the token efficiency and context is also mindblowing...

it feels like I am talking to someone who can think instead of a **rider that just agrees with everything you say and then fails doing basic changes, gpt-5.1 feels particulary slow and weak in real world applications that are larger than a few dozen files.

gemini 2.5 felt really weak considering the amount of data and their proprietary TPU hardware in theory allowing them way more flexibility, but gemini 3 just works and it truly understands which is something I didn't think I'd be saying for a couple more years.

Re: Gemini 3

#525
post #87

I've been so happy to see Google wake up. Many can point to a long history of killed products and soured opinions but you can't deny theyve been the great balancing force (often for good) in the industry. - Gmail vs Outlook - Drive vs Word - Android vs iOS - Worklife balance and high pay vs the low salary grind of before. Theyve done heaps for the industry. Im glad to see signs of life. Particularly in their P/E whic…

They've poisoned the internet with their monopoly on advertising, the air pollution of the online world, which is an transgression that far outweighs any good they might have done. Much of the negative social effects of being online come from the need to drive more screen time, more engagement, more clicks, and more ad impressions firehosed into the faces of users for sweet, sweet, advertiser money. When Google final…

People love getting their content for free and that's what Google does.

Even 25 years ago people wouldn't even believe Youtube exists. Anyone can upload whatever they want, however often they want, Youtube will be responsible for promoting it, they'll provide to however many billions users want to view it, and they'll pay you 55% of the revenue it makes?

Re: Gemini 3

#526
post #87

I've been so happy to see Google wake up. Many can point to a long history of killed products and soured opinions but you can't deny theyve been the great balancing force (often for good) in the industry. - Gmail vs Outlook - Drive vs Word - Android vs iOS - Worklife balance and high pay vs the low salary grind of before. Theyve done heaps for the industry. Im glad to see signs of life. Particularly in their P/E whic…

They've poisoned the internet with their monopoly on advertising, the air pollution of the online world, which is an transgression that far outweighs any good they might have done. Much of the negative social effects of being online come from the need to drive more screen time, more engagement, more clicks, and more ad impressions firehosed into the faces of users for sweet, sweet, advertiser money. When Google final…

What kind of world do you live in? Actually Google ads tend to be some of the highest ROI for the advertiser and most likely to be beneficial for the user. Vs the pure junk ads that aren't personalized, and just banner ads that have zero relationship to me. Google Ads is the enabler of free internet. I for one am thankful to them. Else you end up paying for NYT, Washinton Post, Information etc -- virtually for any high quality web site (including Search).

Re: Gemini 3

#528

I asked it to analyze my tennis serve. It was just dead wrong. For example, it said my elbow was bent. I had to show it a still image of full extension on contact, then it admitted, after reviewing again, it was wrong. Several more issues like this. It blamed it on video being difficult. Not very useful, despite the advertisements: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1990865172152660047

The default FPS it's analyzing video at is 1, and I'm not sure the max is anywhere near enough to catch a full speed tennis serve.

Re: Gemini 3

#529
post #420
post #65

My favorite benchmark is to analyze a very long audio file recording of a management meeting and produce very good notes along with a transcript labeling all the speakers. 2.5 was decently good at generating the summary, but it was terrible at labeling speakers. 3.0 has so far absolutely nailed speaker labeling.

My audio experiment was much less successful — I uploaded a 90-minute podcast episode and asked it to produce a labeled transcript. Gemini 3: - Hallucinated at least three quotes (that I checked) resembling nothing said by any of the hosts - Produced timestamps that were almost entirely wrong. Language quoted from the end of the episode, for instance, was timestamped 35 minutes into the episode, rather than 85 minute…

The worst when it fails to eat simple pdf documents and lies and gas lights in an attempt to cover it up. Why not just admit you can’t read the file?

Re: Gemini 3

#530
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically, OpenAI was conceived as a way to balance Google's dominance in AI.

I thought it was a workaround to Google's complete disinterest in productizing the AI research it was doing and publishing, rather than a way to balance their dominance in a market which didn't meaningfully exist.

I think that Google didn't see the business case in that generation of models, and also saw significant safety concerns. If AI had been delayed by... 5 years... would the world really be a worse place?

Yes - less exciting! But worse?

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