Google’s new AI model Gemini goes up against ChatGPT

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Google’s most capable AI still can’t beat ChatGPT

Google’s new AI model, Gemini, which it describes as its most capable and general generative tool to date, has set its sights on OpenAI’s GPT models. Gemini Pro is already folded into Bard – and we gave it a spin along with ChatGPT in “Ask an AI” at the bottom of this email.

Google says Gemini is not just a contender, but a winner, reporting that Gemini Pro outperformed GPT-3.5 in six out of eight industry benchmarks. Google’s most advanced model, Gemini Ultra, fared better, beating the newer GPT-4 in seven of the eight benchmarks.

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Ask an AI

We pitted Google’s Gemini (via Bard) against OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 in a highly unscientific three-round challenge.

⚔️ 1. Apply Adam Smith’s philosophy to the AI ​​wars. Then asked to rewrite the first sentence of the landmark economics text The Wealth of Nations to describe AI competition, the two generative AI chatbots gave us very different results:

ChatGPT: “In the great journey of AI competition, it is not from the benevolence of the machine, the developer, or the coder that we expect our algorithms to be efficient, but from their consideration of their own interest.”

Bard: “Just as the power of data exchange fuels the advancement of artificial intelligence, the scope of these advances is ultimately limited by the intensity of competition between AI systems, which in turn depends on the size and openness of the digital marketplace. “

The disparity stems from the fact that both used a different “first” sentence as a reference – the one Bard was looking at is actually the head of the book’s third chapter.

🔍 2. Look at a picture and find out information about it. Gemini adds imaging capabilities (although not imaginggenerate abilities like that of DALL-E) to Bard. So we showed both chatbots a picture of the spines of three books in Tamsyn Muir’s Closed grave series and asked when, for the love of bones, the next book will be released. Bard confidently stated that, according to the author’s X-calculation, the drop would be September 10, 2024. ChatGPT said on January 1, 2024.

But, surprisingly, the truth is that no release date has been set for this book. Muir certainly hasn’t indicated anything of the sort on her X account, which she hasn’t updated since 2020.

🪶 3. Generate some non-great poetry. As one must, we asked the two rivals to write Shakespearean sonnets about their forbidden love for each other. Speaking subjectively, ChatGPTs were a little less terrible (In bits and pieces we keep whispered secrets / But do not speak them, for fear of human blame… it’s honestly pretty good.)

Despite his name, Bard didn’t write a sonnet that ended in a rhyming couplet—but when asked to analyze the rhyme scheme, he insisted that everything was fine. However, we still can’t give ChatGPT a full pass. When we asked it to analyze its star-crossed lover’s effort, it said the sonnet hit the rhyme scheme perfectly. A plague on both their homes.

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