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I gotta say, I've been trying out Gemini recently and it's embarrassingly bad. I can't take anything google puts out seriously when their current offerings are

I gotta say, I've been trying out Gemini recently and it's embarrassingly bad. I can't take anything google puts out seriously when their current offerings are so so much worse than ChatGPT (or even local llama!). As a particularly egregious example, yesterday night I gave Gemini a list of drinks and other cocktail ingredients I had laying around and asked for some recommendations for cute drinks that I could make. It's response: > I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that. ChatGPT 3.5 came up with several delicious options with clear instructions, but it's not just this instance, I've NEVER gotten a response from Gemini that I even felt was more useful than just a freaking bing search! Much less better than ChatGPT. I'm just going to assume they're using cherrypicked metrics to make themselves feel better until proven otherwise. I have zero confidence in Google's AI plays, and I assume all their competent talent is now at OpenAI or Anthropic.

samspenc 3y ago
My experiences are similar, but I think we are talking about the Gemini free model, available on the Google Gemini website. I think the rest of the comments are saying the paid versions (Pro / Ultra) are significantly better, though I haven't tested it myself to compare.
- shellfishgene 3y ago
  I have the 2 months trial for the paid version, and find myself going back to free ChatGPT often. Gemini loves to put everything in bullet point lists and short paragraphs with subheadings for example, even when asking for a letter. I'm not a heavy user, but it seems to not quite get what I want often. Not important but annoying: It starts almost every answer with "Absolutely!", even when it doesn't match the question (e.g. "How does x work?").
staticman2 3y ago
I don't think "I'm just a language model, I can't help you with that" comes from Gemini. Google has a seperate censorship model that blocks you from receiving Gemini's response in certain situations. When Gemeni (Ultra) refuses to do something itself it is more verbose and specific as to why it won't do it, it my experience.

samspenc 3y ago

My experiences are similar, but I think we are talking about the Gemini free model, available on the Google Gemini website. I think the rest of the comments are saying the paid versions (Pro / Ultra) are significantly better, though I haven't tested it myself to compare.

shellfishgene 3y ago
I have the 2 months trial for the paid version, and find myself going back to free ChatGPT often. Gemini loves to put everything in bullet point lists and short paragraphs with subheadings for example, even when asking for a letter. I'm not a heavy user, but it seems to not quite get what I want often. Not important but annoying: It starts almost every answer with "Absolutely!", even when it doesn't match the question (e.g. "How does x work?").

staticman2 3y ago

I don't think "I'm just a language model, I can't help you with that" comes from Gemini. Google has a seperate censorship model that blocks you from receiving Gemini's response in certain situations. When Gemeni (Ultra) refuses to do something itself it is more verbose and specific as to why it won't do it, it my experience.