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Post by EchoReflection »

crazygringo wrote: post #761
gnicholas wrote: post #630

I'm surprised they got rid of the Bard name. It struck me as a really smart choice since a Bard is someone who said things, and it's an old/archaic enough word to not already be in a zillion other names. Gemini, on the other hand, doesn't strike me as particularly relevant (except that perhaps it's a twin of ChatGPT?), and there are other companies with the same name. EDIT: I can see the advantage of picking a name t…

I'm not surprised -- I thought Bard was terrible branding. It's all associations with Shakespeare and poetry and medieval England, and as much as I might personally enjoy those, it's extremely backwards-looking, with archaic connotations. Also it sounds close to "beard" -- hairy stuff. Gemini sounds like the space program -- futuristic, a leap for mankind. It's got all the right emotional associations. It's a constel…

even though i liked Bard, it is only one (extra) letter away from being the word "bad". "Bard" is cooler imo but "Gemini" starts with "G", has "gem" (a rare, valuable thing) in it, and sounds pretty. Personally i don't care at all either way though.

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

#892

Post by tuan »

gnicholas wrote: post #630

I'm surprised they got rid of the Bard name. It struck me as a really smart choice since a Bard is someone who said things, and it's an old/archaic enough word to not already be in a zillion other names. Gemini, on the other hand, doesn't strike me as particularly relevant (except that perhaps it's a twin of ChatGPT?), and there are other companies with the same name. EDIT: I can see the advantage of picking a name t…

I'm so glad that they've changed the name :) Bard is really difficult for me, a non-native English speaker, to pronounce correctly. I think most people from my country (Vietnam) pronounce Bard as "bahd". Gemini on the other hand is so easy to pronounce.

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

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Post by kevinmchugh »

QuantumGood wrote: post #789
kevinmchugh wrote: post #594

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On logic it cannot handle the Dumb Monty Hall problem at all: https://g.co/gemini/share/33c5fb45738f

That is not the Monty Hall problem, it is a trick question based on the Monty Hall problem. It's a reasonable test, and I see GPT-4 recognizes the problem AS WRITTEN, and perhaps "the Dumb Monty Hall problem" is some generally accepted standard that I haven't encountered before. edit: "AS WRITTEN"

I saw it posted on Twitter some time last year. If LLMs are to be useful they should be capable of answering novel questions. This is only a trick question for an LLM. 2 of the 7 sentences plainly state the answer.

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

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Post by raincole »

dcchambers wrote: post #552
27182818284 wrote: post #159

Search for it in the Play Store, first icons are Crypto.com and Gemini: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto options to install Scroll past the screenshots of those apps Scroll past the Limitied-time events Scroll past the You Might Also Like and Similar Apps OK now we see it, we install, it we launch it and..."Gemini isn't ccurrently available. Try again later." Bravo Google. Great launch.

For your first point - it actually makes me happy that Google does not intentionally (illegally?) promote their own products over others in the app store. I assume their app is following the same algorithm as others to determine how it shows up on that list. Since it just launched, it makes sense it's not at the top. The ranking should improve. For your second point - I also had the same error when I launched it. Clo…

I agree. It would be more concerning if it magically got to the 1st search result immediately.

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

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Post by kevinmchugh »

fragmede wrote: post #874
kevinmchugh wrote: post #594

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On logic it cannot handle the Dumb Monty Hall problem at all: https://g.co/gemini/share/33c5fb45738f

how's it do with the trivial river crossing problem? (farmer fox chicken and grain need to cross a river in a boat big enough to hold them all) ChatGPT-4 can't do it.

https://g.co/gemini/share/c4e5634a2e2d

Not terrible. It gets the answer wrong, but reminded of the crucial twist it gets it correct, durably. If you're too condescending it will give up and ask what the hell you're looking for

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

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Post by whatevertrevor »

jonplackett wrote: post #695
yandie wrote: post #549

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I got a different answer with GPT 3.5 > If the word "push" is written on the glass door in mirror writing, it means that from the other side of the door, it should be pushed. When you see the mirrored text from your side, it indicates the action to be taken from the opposite side. Therefore, in this scenario, you should push the door to open it.

Here's another one. This is a classic logic puzzle - usually about ducks. There are two pineapples in front of a pineapple, two pineapples behind a pineapple and a pineapple in the middle. How many pineapples are there? When you use ducks, Gemini can do it, when you use pineapples it cannot and thinks there are 5 instead of 3. ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 can do it. The even funnier thing is if you then say to gemini, hey - wou…

This is less of a logic puzzle and more of a riddle. It would be a logic puzzle if the question was around the lines of "What is the least number of pineapples that satisfies these constraints?"

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

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Post by fragmede »

huytersd wrote: post #809
jonplackett wrote: post #695

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's another one. This is a classic logic puzzle - usually about ducks. There are two pineapples in front of a pineapple, two pineapples behind a pineapple and a pineapple in the middle. How many pineapples are there? When you use ducks, Gemini can do it, when you use pineapples it cannot and thinks there are 5 instead of 3. ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 can do it. The even funnier thing is if you then say to gemini, hey - wou…

The way I parsed that sentence, I came up with 5.

Hate to break it to you but I did too. Apparently that means we're both LLMs. I coulda sworn I had a whole childhood and everything but apparently I've always been a GPT.

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

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Post by felarof »

gnicholas wrote: post #630

I'm surprised they got rid of the Bard name. It struck me as a really smart choice since a Bard is someone who said things, and it's an old/archaic enough word to not already be in a zillion other names. Gemini, on the other hand, doesn't strike me as particularly relevant (except that perhaps it's a twin of ChatGPT?), and there are other companies with the same name. EDIT: I can see the advantage of picking a name t…

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Post by felarof »

glenstein wrote: post #849
chfalck wrote: post #841

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Interesting. I don’t like the name at all because it makes me think of people who take horoscopes seriously. You’re impression seems to be untainted by that which is nice

Same here, I think I'm more on your side which I guess goes to show how all over the map subjective reactions can be. But first of all, I thought the whole idea of alphabet was a kind of cheeky way of telling the world you had a portfolio of projects, one for each letter, And B is for bard would be perfect, and Gemini is about as incompatible as it gets given that g is claimed. I also find it bizarre to say that asso…

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