It’s total trash AI. I keep forgetting to unsubscribe. Can’t do anything.
Why let everyone in earshot know what you're up to? Sure, it's easier than typing all that text given crappy feedback of these smartphone onscreen keyboards.
If you show a pic to Google Lens app, the app will proceed to identify text and highlight those text passages.
In the AI-verse, Lens could detect the concert tour.
- if the tour was in the past, Lens could look up in Photos any media with GPS locations at those concert locations/dates and show them.
- if the tour is now/in the future, Lens could detect the dates and locations, and look up in your calendar to find when you are available. If you are available when the tour comes to your town, Lens would show a big green checkmark next to that date/location pair or highlight that date/location. Otherwise, it goes into search mode and crosses out dates/location when you aren't available. For out-of-town locations when you are available, Lens could start up Maps to search for flights to those locations. Perhaps a search of your contacts to see if you have friends/relatives in/near those out-of-town locations. or look in your calendar to see if you've been to any of those out-of-town locations before, etc. etc.
That'd impress me.
They're making the mistake of optimizing for general case users (who don't care about model version) when they need to attract power users so that they can find product-market fit.
Edit: I found the answer on Reddit, as usual. You need to go to your plan settings and only then is the plan available under one.google.com/settings. That's the only way to downgrade.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o are roughly the same with the former pipping it for me and then out there is this shitty Google product that is worse than Llama-3 running on my own laptop. Even Llama-3 is better at remembering what's going on.
Fortunately, this time I managed to look it up and I have it for free because I have Google One 5TB, apparently. And there's no way to spend more money so that's what I have. It's so bad that when Claude and ChatGPT run out of messages for me I just use local Llama rather than use Gemini. Atrocious product.
You must not have ever used GPT-2 if you think it is comparable to any commonly used chatbot today
In my experience they are at similar level for most tasks.
Where it truly stands out is the 2M context window. That's game-changing for things like analyzing publications and books.
I'm sure some benchmarks are decent but when Google finally shutters the chatbot I'll be glad because then I won't constantly be wondering if I'm paying for it.
It's a shame because Google's AI features otherwise are incredible. Google Photos has fantastic facial recognition, and I can search it with descriptions of photos and it finds them. Their keyboard is pretty good. But Gemini Advanced is better off not existing. If it's the same team, I suppose they can't keep making hits. If it's a different team, then they're two orders of magnitude less capable.
Gemini Advanced has 1M context window. If this is low, I am not sure anything else on the market will satisfy you.
This feels a lot like when people would tell me how the HP laptop had more gigahertz and stuff and it would inevitably suck compared to a Mac.
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This is very lame (and the sad part is that it's a real story).
But recently I asked Gemini "Bill Clinton is famous for his charisma and ability to talk with people. Did he ever share tips on how he does it?" and Gemini responded with some generic "can't talk about politics" answer, which was a real turn-off.
I signed up, but I have no idea if I am being charged for it. Hope not.
It feels like Google's marketing has gone full dark side.
And it's lazy marketing. Nothing feels genuinely positive for the consumer.
It's depressing.