We have now had a little over a week with Gemini Advanced, based on Gemini Ultra. A few reviews are in. Not that many, though, compared to what I would have expected, or what I feel the situation calls for. This is yet another case of there being an obvious thing lots of people should do, and almost no one doing it. Should we use Gemini Advanced versus ChatGPT? Which tasks are better for one versus the other?
You're right on that a lot of these comparisons are pretty far removed from testing actual mundane utility. OK, Gemini is bad at playing rock-paper-scissors. Who cares? I am also not here to discuss free will with an LLM. In my actual day-to-day use, ChatGPT is a better search engine (90%) and a coding assistant (10%). The suggestion to dig through my ChatGPT history and send the same prompts to Gemini is a good one. I'm going to give that a go.
I'm afraid to poke at Gemini because hitting some hair-trigger filter and getting banned from Gmail would be a life-disrupting disaster. My first attempt to get Gemini to look at an image, a meme of characters from a show talking with overlaid text of a philosophical conversation, got blocked and actually deleted from my transcript and I still don't have a good theory about why. (Now that I think about it, this worry keeps me from doing much with the other Google services as well -- Gmail is too important to risk.)
Maybe something for "the lighter side": Gemini goes into "Danish mode" when it can't answer a question (real prompt) https://g.co/gemini/share/9b232d119f55
It almost seems like you're getting trolled with Gemini 1.5's announcement coming out 30 minutes after these two posts... https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024
You're right on that a lot of these comparisons are pretty far removed from testing actual mundane utility. OK, Gemini is bad at playing rock-paper-scissors. Who cares? I am also not here to discuss free will with an LLM. In my actual day-to-day use, ChatGPT is a better search engine (90%) and a coding assistant (10%). The suggestion to dig through my ChatGPT history and send the same prompts to Gemini is a good one. I'm going to give that a go.
I'm afraid to poke at Gemini because hitting some hair-trigger filter and getting banned from Gmail would be a life-disrupting disaster. My first attempt to get Gemini to look at an image, a meme of characters from a show talking with overlaid text of a philosophical conversation, got blocked and actually deleted from my transcript and I still don't have a good theory about why. (Now that I think about it, this worry keeps me from doing much with the other Google services as well -- Gmail is too important to risk.)
Maybe something for "the lighter side": Gemini goes into "Danish mode" when it can't answer a question (real prompt) https://g.co/gemini/share/9b232d119f55