Google’s ChatGPT Killer Gemini is Live – But Fake. Should You Use It? // Future Work Digest #65

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You may have heard that Google launched its “ChatGPT Killer” Gemini, and that part of it was fake.

What actually happened? And should you use Google's new tools?

That and more in this week’s Future Work, the 65th edition, and the last one of 2023 – I’ll be back in January.

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Google’s ChatGPT Killer Gemini is Here, But Fake? Should You Use It?

After being pressured to deliver a ChatGPT alternative, Google presented Gemini, its OpenAI competitor, last week.

Multimodal refers to how Google has built Gemini from the ground up to process text, video, voice, and code. In ChatGPT, this is something that came later into the model.

Reasoning means that Google believes Gemini is better at ‘thinking’ than ChatGPT, logically processing inputs and outputs.

The presented use cases (see the full article for demos) in analyzing large data sets, explaining reasoning in math and physics, and creating bespoke web experiences are impressive.

Benchmark Scores and Fake Demo Controversy

One of the things that Google seemingly couldn’t emphasize enough is that Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 in several benchmarks.

However, researchers pointed out that Google is comparing a model that has not been released with ChatGPT-4, which is over a year old and has been publicly available since March 2023.

And a much bigger controversy broke out mere days after the Gemini announcement when it came out that the most impressive demo wasn’t real.

A video where squiggly lines progressively turn into a duck, and where Gemini seems to be guessing along the way, together with other games, did not happen as such.

Read the full story: https://www.flexos.work/learn/googles-chatgpt-killer-gemini-is-here-but-fake-should-you-use-it

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