Forget about Bard, Google's answer to ChatGPT. It now has a new name. Google announced its AI chatbot will be known as Gemini and it comes with a new logo, app, website and subscription service. CNET has the details:
A video showcasing the capabilities of Google's artificial intelligence (AI) model which seemed too good 2 be true might just b that
The #Gemini demo, which has 1.6m views on #YouTube, shows remarkable back-and-forth where an AI responds in real time 2 spoken-word prompts & video
In the video's description, #Goofle said all was not as it seemed - it had sped up responses 4 the sake of the demo.
But it has also admitted the #AI was not responding to voice or video at all
@TechDesk Use the hashtag #AlphabetGemini instead so that corporations dont pollute the timeline of the #gemini web. Corporations doesnt have right of way on the fediverse.
NGC 7727, the billion-year-old aftermath of a double spiral #galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction, entwined and caught in the midst of the #chaos, is a pair of supermassive #blackholes — the closest such pair ever recorded from #Earth.
It's time for an #introduction, having just moved over from Fosstodon to a much smaller instance.
I've recently career changed, after three decades teaching physics and computer science in schools and colleges. I'm now an instructor in the aviation industry and enjoying the change of pace.
I have an occasionally updated #Gemini log, a set of #RaspberryPi computers running network services, and I started programming on a Sinclair ZX81 microcomputer.
I enjoy winge-bonding about the failures of politics, irritatingly smug tech billionaires and the stupidity of the #england national rugby team. I prefer calming countryside photos, happy tales and stories of positive experiences.
Right now, I think there's only one change I'd make to the #Gemini spec: formalize the use (or at least acknowledgement by clients) of ANSI escape sequences that control color and bold/italic. I'd make inline links a compatible extension (the use case for this is Wikipedia).
Crazy idea that I can't believe I'm considering: Building a #gemini front end -- well, not a front end so much as the "static" views of profiles and public posts - for @gotosocial
(I really need to finish some existing side projects before starting new ones.)
(Admittedly, a full gemini-based #GoToSocial front-end that enables posting and stuff would be cool too. Though it looks like Bubble may be a better fit for that sort of thing: gemini://geminispace.org/u/skyjake/1 )
#gemini and smolnet enthusiasts or just curious folks. Have you seen this new addition to the realm? Kind of a combo of multiple social media style platforms but on gemini. You can post to your own personal feed/tinylog as if it were fedi/twitter, there are topic-centered subspaces kind of like subreddits. It could be used as a small community bulletin board over gemini or even as the management software for publishing to your own personal capsule.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
And one of the keys to an open anything is ease of access. And sure enough, there are still plenty of dedicated tools to access specific parts of the #Internet that are not the #WorldWideWeb: clients for FTP, gopher, finger, USENET, email, IRC or even new hypertext navigation protocols like #Gemini exist.
But why should I need a different client for each when I could access the whole Internet from a single client?