Google officially unveiled its most capable large language model to date, Gemini. CEO Sundar Pichai said it is the first of “a new generation of ai models, inspired by the way people understand and interact with the world.” Of course, it's all very complex, but Google's multibillion-dollar investment in ai has created a more flexible model than any before it. Let's analyze it.
The system has been developed from the ground up as an integrated multimodal ai. As Engadget's Andrew Tarantola says, “Think of many fundamental ai models as groups of smaller models, all stacked up.” Gemini is trained to understand and reason perfectly with all types of input, and this should make it quite capable of complex coding requests and even physics problems.
Gemini is being “made” in three sizes: Nano, Pro and Ultra. Nano is on the device and Pro will be integrated into Google's chatbot, Bard. The enhanced Bard chatbot will be available in the same 170 countries and territories as the existing service. Gemini Pro apparently outperformed the previous model, which initially powered ChatGPT, called GPT-3.5, in six out of eight ai benchmarks. However, there are still no comparisons between OpenAI's dominant chatbot running on GPT-4 and this new challenger.
Meanwhile, the Gemini Ultra, which won't be available until at least 2024, scored higher than any other model, including the GPT-4, in some benchmark tests. However, this Ultra version reportedly requires additional testing before it is cleared for release to “select customers, developers, partners, and security and liability experts” for further testing and feedback.
-Mat Smith
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