Google primary artificial intelligence The model is getting smarter and faster again after the tech giant released the major upgrade to the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI Model.
According to sources According to a blog post by Amar Subramanya, Gemini’s VP of Engineering, you’ll notice overall improvements in quality and latency with the move to Flash 1.5, with frame reasoning and understanding showing particularly notable gains.
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In this illustration photo, Gemini Ai is seen on an iPad on March 18, 2024 in New York City.
According to Subramanya, the number of text passages that an AI model can process simultaneously in Gemini is also tripled, to 32,000 tokens. Flash 1.5, which was unveiled at Google I/O in May, is now available in the free version of Gemini for mobile and web use, Subramanya said.
Additionally, Google is revealing other new features for Gemini. According to Subramanya, the company will start showing links to relevant content in Gemini for “information search queries” starting today to help you find factual information on the topics you’re investigating. Click the gray arrow at the end of a paragraph to reveal the links.
Additionally, Gemini will gradually be made available to users in the UK, Switzerland and the European Economic Area via Google Messages. Additionally, “in the coming week,” Gemini for Teens will be available in more than 40 languages.
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Google Gemini Accessibility Update
Other recent updates to Google’s Gemini include the fact that it is now accessible via Android Lock ScreenThe most up-to-date information about Gemini’s increased accessibility on Android devices is provided on Google’s support website.
This implies that users can now enjoy Gemini’s generative AI capabilities and features without constantly opening their Android phones, however, there are still some restrictions.
Simply changing the “Gemini on Lock Screen” settings to “ON” will allow users to use these services directly on their devices.
Users simply need to launch Gemini, search for their profile picture or “Initial,” and navigate to the chatbot’s settings to enable it. To use the feature, then enable “Lock Screen Replies.”
According to Google, this chatbot’s access to Android lock screens is restricted and it can only respond to user prompts with “general questions.”
Since the chatbot can operate even when the device is closed and does not expose any specific or sensitive information, its restricted capability also acts as a privacy feature to prevent unauthorized access to user data.
Google Gemini disappoints
These recent updates and upgrades also come after two surveys Google’s Gemini models have been evaluated on datasets as long as “War and Peace.” The results have been disappointing. One study found that the models answered document-based tests 40 to 50 percent correctly.
Although models like Gemini 1.5 Pro can theoretically handle long contexts, as study co-author and UMass Amherst postdoctoral researcher Marzena Karpinska pointed out, they’ve seen many cases where the models don’t “understand” the information.
Earlier this year, Google demonstrated Gemini’s long-form context capabilities by allowing Gemini 1.5 Pro to search for humorous elements in the television transcript of the Apollo 11 moon landing and match some scenes to a pencil drawing, according to the report. Oriol Vinyals, vice president of research at Google DeepMind, called the model “magical.”
In a study conducted by Princeton and the Allen Institute for AI, models were tasked with determining whether claims made in modern works of fiction were true or false. The models were asked to validate these claims using certain data and plot points.
Gemini 1.5 Pro answered 46.7% of the questions in a 260,000-word book, while Flash answered only 20%.
Comparing claims that can be solved by extracting sentence-level evidence with those that can be verified by searching larger sections of the book, Karpinska claimed that AI models struggled to verify the latter.
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