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Something maybe unfamiliar with you: not about coding but writing. I've asked it to write an argumentative essay, which is a part of "gaokao" (China's university entrance exam), and its work is *extremely* impressive. speaks and writes like a real senior high school student, and the opinions unfold progressively with deep hierarchy. I don't know how the Gemini team reaches this because this kind of Chinese capability literally outperforms at least 2/3 Chinese students, no to mention those who speak Chinese. After all, the model speaks like a real humankind if you prompt it well. That's AGI guys

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Gemini is known for good at creative writing in the Chinese writing community. It's a bit ironic though. Google has probably the most and best code base among all tech companies but its Gemini is bad at coding. Google has no access to Chinese market but its model is incredibly good at writing in Chinese.

> Google has probably the most and best code base among all tech companies but its Gemini is bad at coding.

probably because google knows people would want to extract google's proprietary code from gemini if they use their own code base to train it! I bet they purposefully gimped it to prevent that from happening.

I think this is because the primary use case of gemini is google search overview and the gemini app. thats probably 98% of gemini tokens. they didnt predict how important agentic coding would become.

Nitpick, but in my opinion an LLM is an "it", not a "her" or "he". Using male or female pronouns risks anthropomorphizing them which can lead to unhealthy outcomes.

FYI in Chinese he/she/it all use the same pronoun "ta" when spoken.

They do have a separate character for animals and objects 它 vs 他/她, though I can imagine learning english and just learning ta = he.

There’s also one specifically for God - 祂, and one for animal - 牠, the first one you can see frequently in Chinese bibles or churches, the latter is rarely used.

What about languages, such as Russian, where every single noun has a gender assigned (he, she or it) and AI is a he by default (and everything else is already using pronouns in similar way, like a car is a she, a ship is a he).

That's a good point. Still, "it" makes more sense in English.

Sorry! I was just a bit excited writing the comment and ignored that :(

No worries.

For 60% of the world, it doesn't make a difference. Do not project your gendered (read: sexist) language constructs onto us.

Well, my LLM is a "he".

> Using male or female pronouns risks anthropomorphizing them which can lead to unhealthy outcomes.

Ditto for pets.

Well, I would say your LLM is a "he" just as much as your laptop is: not at all. If you call the laptop "he" that changes nothing.

For animals he/she does make sense, because they are male or female. An LLM is neither.

A goldfish is closer to a person than any LLM.

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