Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gemini is really good at confidently talking nonsense but other than that I don’t really see where you get the idea that it is good. Mind you, that isn’t much better with the other LLMs.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s really good at the thing LLMs are good at. Don’t judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree etc…

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, it is mediocre at best compared to other models but LLMs in general have a very minimal usefulness.

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      • FinnFooted@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I get the desire to say this, but I find them extremely helpful in my line of work. Literally everything they say needs to be validated, but so does Wikipedia and we all know that Wikipedia is extremely useful. Its just another tool. But its a very useful tool if you know how to apply it.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It can be grounded in facts. It’s great at RAG. But even alone, Gemini 2.5 is kinda shockingly smart.

    …But the bigger point is how Google presents it. It shouldn’t be the top result of every search just thrown into your face, it should be a opt-in, conditional feature, and only if it can source a reliable website.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      After just trying it again a few times today for a few practical problems that it not only misunderstood at first completely and then gave me a completely hallucinated answer to every single one I am sorry, but the only thing shocking about it is how stupid it is despite Google’s vast resources. Not that stupid/smart really apply to statistical analysis of language.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gemini 2.5?

        The one they use in search is awful, and not the same thing.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Significantly better than ChatGPT” and “Good” aren’t the same. Like ipecac is better to drink than sewage water.

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