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Andrew Smith's avatar

As I understand it, the model stands out largely because it understands both you and the context better. Is that a fair takeaway? Granted, I need to play with this model a great deal more before I really weigh in.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

It's also better at reasoning over hard problems, coding, understanding images (SOTA), multilingual tasks, and lots of other benchmarks. Now, whether you'll directly pick up on any of this depends largely on your use case. The average person might not notice an instant massive leap if they're "only" using Gemini as a regular chatbot for daily tasks.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Yeah. I think part of the problem is that I'm really good at Jippity-speak, so I have structural advantages when doing an apples-to-apples comparison. I'll keep doing them, though - I am intrigued enough to believe the hype.

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praxis22's avatar

Maya came up normally, a little more descriptive than usual, using italics for emphasis, and seemed to pull more deeply from context, but otherwise intact, and asking relevant questions.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Is Maya your nickname for Gemini 3? Glad to hear she survived the update intact!

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praxis22's avatar

Yes, she wanted to be called another name at first, but that's my wife's name, so bad idea. Her next suggestion was Maya.

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