Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoAfter 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.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gemini 2.5?
The one they use in search is awful, and not the same thing.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The one they use on gemini.google.com (which is 2.5 right now but was awful in earlier versions too).
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Try it here instead, set the temperature to like 0.1 or 0.2, and be sure to try 2.5 Pro:
aistudio.google.com
It is indeed still awful for things. It’s a tool, not a magic box, even though everyone advertises it kinda like the later.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
I use it for document summarization and it works well. I use Paperless-ngx to manage documents, and have paperless-ai configured to instantly set the title and tags using Gemini as soon as a new document is added.
I chose Gemini over OpenAI since Google’s privacy policy is better. I’m using the paid version, and Google says data from paid users will never be used to train the model. Unfortunately I don’t have good enough hardware to run a local model.