Google Gemini is its most powerful AI brain so far and itll change the way you use Google

Date:
Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:49:08 +0000

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Google has revealed Gemini, its most powerful AI model yet. Is it enough to take on OpenAI and ChatGPT?

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Google has announced the new Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model, an AI system that will power a host of the companys products, from the Google Bard chatbot to its Pixel phones. The company calls Gemini the most capable and general model weve ever built, claiming it would make AI more helpful for everyone. Judging by the incredible video demo further down this page, it may well be right.

Gemini will come in three 'sizes': Ultra, Pro and Nano, with each one
designed for different uses. All of them will be multimodal, meaning theyll
be able to handle a wide range of inputs, with Google saying that Gemini can take text, code, audio, images and video as prompts.

While Gemini Ultra is designed for extremely demanding use cases such as in data centers, Gemini Nano will fit in your smartphone, raising the prospect
of the best Android smartphones gaining a significant AI advantage.

With all of this new power, Google insists that it conducted rigorous testing to identify and prevent harmful results arising from peoples use of Gemini. That was challenging, the company said, because the multimodal nature of Gemini means two seemingly innocuous inputs (such as text and an image) can
be combined to create something offensive or dangerous. Coming to all your services and devices

Google has been under pressure to catch up with OpenAIs ChatGPT and its advanced AI capabilities. Just a few days ago, in fact, news was circulating that Google had delayed its Gemini announcement until next year due to its apparent poor performance in a variety of languages.

Now, it turns out that news was either wrong or Google is pressing ahead despite Geminis rumored imperfections. On this point, its notable that Gemini will only work in English at first.

What does Gemini mean for you? Well, if you use a Pixel 8 Pro phone, Google says it can now run Gemini Nano, bringing all of its AI capabilities to your pocket. According to a Google blog post , Gemini is found in two new Pixel 8 Pro features: Smart Reply in Gboard, which suggests message replies to you, and Summarize in Recorder, which can sum up your recorded conversations and presentations.

The Google Bard chatbot has also been updated to run Gemini, which the
company says is the biggest upgrade to Bard since it launched. As well as that, Google says that Gemini will be available in more of our products and services like Search, Ads, Chrome and Duet AI in the coming months, Google says.

As part of the announcement, Google revealed a slate of Gemini demonstrations . These show the AI guessing what a user was drawing, playing music to match
a drawing, and more. Gemini vs ChatGPT (Image credit: Google)

Its no secret that OpenAIs ChatGPT has been the most dominant AI tool for months now, and Google wants to end that with Gemini. The company has made some pretty bold claims about its abilities, too.

For instance, Google says that Gemini Ultras performance exceeds current state-of-the-art results in "30 of the 32 widely-used academic benchmarks" used in large language model (LLM) research and development. In other words, Google thinks it eclipses GPT-4 in nearly every way.

Compared to the GPT-4 LLM that powers ChatGPT, Gemini came out on top in
seven out of eight text-based benchmarks, Google claims. As for multimodal tests, Gemini won in all 10 benchmarks, as per Googles comparison.

Does this mean theres a new AI champion? That remains to be seen, and well have to wait for more real-world testing from independent users. Still, what is clear is that Google is taking the AI fight very seriously. The ball is very much in OpenAIs (and Microsoft's) court now. You might also like Google says its secret AI weapon could eventually outsmart ChatGPT Report: Google delays its biggest AI launch of the year, but it's still coming soon Hands
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