Google Gemini: Specialties, Versions, and Significance

December 8, 2023

GS Paper III Science and Technology

Context: Recently, Google has launched a project “Gemini,” a new multimodal general artificial intelligence (AI) to exhibit human-like behavior.

Specialties of Google Gemini

An expert helper or assistant.
It is also much more powerful than existing models.
Programming Language: Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in the world’s most popular programming languages, like Python, Java, C++ and Go.
A Multimodal: It is not limited to the type of information it can process and can work, understand and operate across text, code, audio, image and video.

Three Versions of Google Gemini

Google Gemini has been optimized for three versions:
- Gemini Nano: Optimal for mobile devices and will manage on-device tasks.
- Gemini Pro: Built for scaling across a wide range of tasks.
- Gemini Ultra: The largest and most capable model, undertaking highly complex tasks.
  - Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on massive multitask language understanding (MMLU).
    - MMLU uses a combination of 57 subjects such as math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics to test world knowledge and problem-solving abilities.

Significance of Google Gemini

Quality with Latency Reduction: Google claimed that Gemini performed 40% reduction in latency in English in the U.S. alongside improvements in quality”.
On Safety: Google claimed that Gemini has “most comprehensive safety evaluations of any Google AI model to date, including for bias and toxicity”,
- It has conducted research into potential risk areas like cyber-offense, persuasion, and autonomy.
- A diverse group of external experts are also working and identifying blindspots.
Google Gemini vs ChatGPT 4:
- More Flexible: Currently, Gemini seems to be more flexible than GPT4 at the moment.
- Work with Video: Gemini’s ability to work with video and on devices without Internet gives it an edge.
  - In contrast, ChatGPT cannot currently work on video, at least not natively.
- Free to Use: Gemini is now free while ChatGPT4 is only for paid users.