Gemini
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Gemini may refer to Google Gemini, an LLM tool like ChatGPT, or for developers, the Gemini protocol, an alternative to HTTP.
Google Gemini
(feel free to make this section its own page if/when there is some IndieWeb relevance to Google Gemini)
Criticism
Incorrect advice
- 2024-05-15 Futurism: During Huge Demo, Google's AI Provides Idiotic Advice About Photography That Would Destroy Film / Why does it feel like AI chatbots are becoming dumber?
Among Gemini's dubious "things you can try," was a highlighted bullet point to "open the back door" of the camera to gently remove the jammed film — which as any film photographer knows, would expose most if not the entire roll, thereby ruining any photos you may have taken so far.
Incorrect results
As with all LLMs, Gemini gets things wrong in many ways, from minor errors, to subtle mistakes, to complete hallucinations. If you find an interesting “wrong result” feel free to screenshot, upload, and embed in this section.
Four circle Venn diagrams
From https://www.google.com/search?q=examples+of+four+circle+venn+diagrams:
None of those images are proper Venn diagrams, nor does the description accurately describe Venn diagrams in particular.
The diagrams are Euler diagrams, missing two of the possible relationships between the different sets.
The description fails to note the key aspect of a Venn diagram, that it displays/demonstrates ALL relationships between different sets in the diagram.
This appears to be a case of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) of the pop misunderstanding of Venn diagrams being more everpresent on the web (presumably its training data) than the proper understanding of it, so Gemini is merely reflecting a pop misunderstanding, though with the confidence of being supposedly accurate.
See Wikipedia:Venn diagram for more details on both of those.
Gemini protocol
The gemini protocol allows users with dedicated clients (such as Lagrange) download documents and explore following links in a similar fashion to the regular web. It is a modern protocol but with a focus in simplicity and security.
The associated file format to this protocol is the gemtext which displays only Text lines, Link lines, Heading lines, List items, Quote lines and Preformat toggle lines.
Disambiguation
- https://mastodon.online/@jlsksr/111929376735220090
- "I hate that I can't follow #Gemini for the application-layer protocol because Google took over the name for its LLM so fast. I mean.. the zodiac sign, the constellation and the NASA project all had their fair share, didn't they? 😉 Dear SmallWeb fellows - we have to use #GeminiProtocol to keep it visible! 💙 https://geminiprotocol.net/#SmallWeb #indieweb #lowtech #gopher #smolweb" @jlsksr February 14, 2024