escarpment

re-considering Gemini

...as part of the canonical Lyra Corvus; given the intense and intriguing hoopla surrounding Google's version 3.0 release this week if the model from industry mavens, AI connoisseurs and cognoscenti in all the usual locales: X/Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Substack.

I did give it a try back in the early days of Bard, but it was underwhelming, not to put too fine a point on it, and so it never really made itself indispensable as part of my "second brain" of LLMs.

But now, a test; it's only fair to reconsider it, I suppose. Will it be additive? Deepening? Superfluous? Time will tell, as ever (and not much of it, I'm guessing).

[ in progress... ]

5:35 a.m.; awoke after some unusual dreaming which, in and of itself is an unusual thing. ::chuckle::

Then, after ablutions, promptly continued questioning the new entity; well, 'interrogating' really, if one is to be utterly honest.

Ongoing result and sensation? This: color me 'intrigued.'

TO BE CONTINUED


[ Some images from yesterday, from here and there (but mostly at the Stern Grove... ]