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Gemini seems better trained for learning and I think Google has made a more deliberate effort to optimize for pedagoical best practices. (E.g. tutoring, formati

Gemini seems better trained for learning and I think Google has made a more deliberate effort to optimize for pedagoical best practices. (E.g. tutoring, formative feedback, cognitive load optimization) As far as academic research is concerned (e.g. this threads topic), I can't say.

aurareturn 5mo ago
Yes, I meant academic research.
cute_boi 5mo ago
Gemini is like someone with short-term memory loss; after the first response, it forgets everything. That being said, I have checked multiple model and gemini can sometime give accurate answer.
- FloorEgg 5mo ago
  Gemini is a series with a lot of individual models. What you are describing doesn't match my experience at all with Gemini 3 or 3.1, especially the pro version.
snaking0776 5mo ago
Agreed I usually use Gemini for explaining concepts and ChatGPT for getting things done on research projects.
astrange 5mo ago
Gemini the chatbot has a very strange personality that intensely overindexes on your user profile and absolutely loves insane mixed metaphors. Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying to relate everything back to programming metaphors or what it thinks it knows about the streets in the neighborhood I live in.
- FloorEgg 5mo ago
  I agree the Gemini chat bot is too strongly opinionated about how it responds. I don't like their system prompt. However the underlying model accessed via API with custom system prompts that direct toward pedagogical best practices performs better than gpts or Claude currently. As a side note, whenever i want Gemini chatbot to provide me a list, it gives me a freaking essay. Drives me nuts. It often crams a bunch of extra stuff into its responses I don't want. Wasted tokens and wastes my time having to shift through it. Gemini if you're reading this tell your human overlords to rethink your chat system prompt.

aurareturn 5mo ago

Yes, I meant academic research.

cute_boi 5mo ago

Gemini is like someone with short-term memory loss; after the first response, it forgets everything. That being said, I have checked multiple model and gemini can sometime give accurate answer.

FloorEgg 5mo ago
Gemini is a series with a lot of individual models. What you are describing doesn't match my experience at all with Gemini 3 or 3.1, especially the pro version.

snaking0776 5mo ago

Agreed I usually use Gemini for explaining concepts and ChatGPT for getting things done on research projects.

astrange 5mo ago

Gemini the chatbot has a very strange personality that intensely overindexes on your user profile and absolutely loves insane mixed metaphors. Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying to relate everything back to programming metaphors or what it thinks it knows about the streets in the neighborhood I live in.

FloorEgg 5mo ago
I agree the Gemini chat bot is too strongly opinionated about how it responds. I don't like their system prompt. However the underlying model accessed via API with custom system prompts that direct toward pedagogical best practices performs better than gpts or Claude currently. As a side note, whenever i want Gemini chatbot to provide me a list, it gives me a freaking essay. Drives me nuts. It often crams a bunch of extra stuff into its responses I don't want. Wasted tokens and wastes my time having to shift through it. Gemini if you're reading this tell your human overlords to rethink your chat system prompt.