Why Are People Bashing Google Gemini if It’s Better Than GPT-4?

Whether you think Google DeepMind’s Gemini is a success or not depends mainly on whether you like Google or not.

Google announced Gemini on Wednesday by surprise. It was thought to be released in Q1 2024 but they moved the event up. The reported performance is great — Gemini surpasses GPT-4 on most benchmarks — the demo grabbed people’s attention, and researchers who worked on the project seemed happy with the results.

But soon enough people found flaws and shortcomings in both the model and the presentation. From bashing Google they jumped to bash Gemini. Their rightful skepticism of Google’s ability to make worthwhile AI (which ironically contrasts with the fact that it invented the transformer) and a long history of overpromising and underdelivering that has favored OpenAI for years, are a heavy burden on Google’s back. It seems Gemini is not going to be enough to lift it fully despite the breakthrough it represents.

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Will Google’s Bard Be a Destination Chatbot?

Apparently, no one knows how to write a call to action at Google.

On Wednesday, the company launched its newest language model, Gemini, which purportedly beats GPT-4 on some benchmarks. Awesome! Except there was no easy link to try it. Most companies put a giant TRY NOW button at the top of their product announcements, but not Google.

Instead, I had to swim in the corporate blog post version of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trying to find a goddamn way to actually use the thing. It was easier to cancel my gym membership than to get access to its chatbot.

After consulting a douser (err, my friends on X), I found a sentence in the post that explained that while Gemini is available in Bard—Google’s ChatGPT competitor—immediately, its most performant version—the one that beats GPT-4—won’t be out until next year. Daddy Googs giveth, and Daddy Googs taketh away.

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