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by jimmywetnips 856 days ago
I keep trying alternatives to gpt 4 based on people shitting on it and you know what, every single time I try something else, I hit a bruh moment on the first try.

I asked Gemini v1 2 days ago about programming and the first response was some nonsense about elections being a complex topic.

if gpt 4 is Fisher Price then it's competitors are ill fitting kinder egg toys with missing pieces.

https://i.imgur.com/gxh0mUZ.jpeg
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Jensson 856 days ago
Gemini in their interface has overly strong political correctness and safety which creates such strange responses, but if you avoid triggering that then it is pretty good.

Edit: And in your screenshot you did get real responses, you see gemini generates several look at response 2, looks like what you wanted.

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jimmywetnips 856 days ago
I did see the other examples. But the fact is, a question about double metaphone that is 99% code should not trigger some tangent about politics.

Not once in my thousands of questions to gpt did it go so far off base. Maybe in the gpt3 days sometimes it would get caught in a repeating character loop.

Yet my fourth or so time back to Bard and it shits the bed on the first try makes me think, yeah... Still kinder surprise

Also, the suggested changes from the remaining responses are incredibly naive. It suggests pulling numbers out and appending them back in, which breaks if the numbers aren't simply at the end of the strings, as well as not going with the pronunciation spirit of metaphone.

"Google search for election info" https://g.co/gemini/share/7afd63de0079

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scotty79 856 days ago
It's so sad that we got AIs only after everybody got so sensitive about some utterances. I think the language itself was never supposed to be that serious as we are currently making it.
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darepublic 856 days ago
look forward to an LLM that can simulate talking to a mature highly knowledgable adult and not a painfully grinning corporate mannequin.
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spaceman_2020 856 days ago
Using raw ChatGPT for complex coding queries is just poor tool use.

Custom GPTs exist for a reason. Grimoire (custom GPT) outperforms raw ChatGPT by miles.

My workflow is usually Grimoire to get a broad overview of things, then a model that can use my repo via tools like Cursor.

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jimmywetnips 856 days ago
Ooo good to know. I'll check that out.
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