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Everyone wants/wanted Google as a search engine because it was the best. No users thinks Gemini is the best. In fact it is being mocked by media right now. And

• taylodl 3y ago
  I guess I'm no user! Gemini is the best all-around AI tool I've used. It falls a bit on programming tasks, but I don't use it for that.
  • ribosometronome 3y ago
    >It falls a bit on programming tasks, but I don't use it for that. I suspect a lot of us mediocre coders probably are using these chat AIs primarily for this. ChatGPT's been a pretty solid replacement for what used to be Googling for "How do I do X in Y?" kind of queries. Obviously, that's not really what Siri needs to be.
    • taylodl 3y ago
      I've been using Gemini in lieu of Google search where I'm asking a question I want an answer to rather than searching for a website. Microsoft is doing this with Bing, it tries to understand when you're searching for web sites and when you're searching for answers. I imagine Google will eventually integrate these offerings. Where Microsoft's integrated approach presents challenges is Gemini provides for a conversational approach (context). If I ask a question and subsequently need to provide further clarification, I can just provide the clarification. I don't need to re-ask the entire edited question. It's amazing how fast I've become accustomed to this conversational approach. WRT Apple, Siri has become irksome. She can't reliably handle basic tasks on your phone, much less general-purpose questions. At this point I think it's going to become the case that AI is a commodity, and I don't see what Apple gains by building their own commodity service.