Do you mean Gemini?
Which AI do you use?
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I try to avoid ai as much as possible. In the end, every ai is a program. A program someone wrote. Whatever bias the programmer had, will, in some manner, wind up in the program. I have learned over the course of my 68.5 years on this earth, 14.5 of them in uniform, to be very very distrustful of most people I don't know. And I don't personally know a single ai programmer. Sounds mean I know. But I'm still alive and most of my friends and peers are not. Good or bad, my life has shaped me into what I am and I have found no reason to trust ai.
I use Brave browser and Duck duck go as my search engine. My browser deletes all cookies when I close it so the ai settings are deleted at every closing also.
With that in mind, doing any internet search is a two step process for me when I first open my browser. I first search for alpha, that search allows me to access the ai settings. I turn them all off, save and exit, then search for whatever I was actually looking for. I do wish I could permanently disable all the ai bs but brave, for some reason known only to them, stores those settings in a cookie. That gets deleted as soon as I close the browser. Sigh.
As for surgical pain, in 2010 I had a quadruple bypass. Yes, it hurt. Still hurts sometimes, it's currently -17F outside now. If I let that cold seep in, my breastbone hurts for hours afterward. However, in 2016 I had an aortobyfem bypass. Basically my aorta is artifical from when it curves downward near the heart all the way to both femoral arteries. Pretty much sliced me open from the bottom of the bypass scar to my nether regions. Scarred from my neck to crotch.
I thought the quadruple bypass hurt, but not nearly as much as the aorta replacement. It took me twice as long to recover from that one.
If you can avoid that surgery, I reccoment it.
I use Brave browser and Duck duck go as my search engine. My browser deletes all cookies when I close it so the ai settings are deleted at every closing also.
With that in mind, doing any internet search is a two step process for me when I first open my browser. I first search for alpha, that search allows me to access the ai settings. I turn them all off, save and exit, then search for whatever I was actually looking for. I do wish I could permanently disable all the ai bs but brave, for some reason known only to them, stores those settings in a cookie. That gets deleted as soon as I close the browser. Sigh.
As for surgical pain, in 2010 I had a quadruple bypass. Yes, it hurt. Still hurts sometimes, it's currently -17F outside now. If I let that cold seep in, my breastbone hurts for hours afterward. However, in 2016 I had an aortobyfem bypass. Basically my aorta is artifical from when it curves downward near the heart all the way to both femoral arteries. Pretty much sliced me open from the bottom of the bypass scar to my nether regions. Scarred from my neck to crotch.
I thought the quadruple bypass hurt, but not nearly as much as the aorta replacement. It took me twice as long to recover from that one.
If you can avoid that surgery, I reccoment it.
Most of the AI offerings I have found mediocre on technical issues. The best I have found is Claude AI. I found answers to be more consistently correct. I have had good luck also asking questions like what are your citations for an answer. You know you are getting garbage when responses are reddit posts and comments from technical forums....
You run local AI with these tools.
https://msty.ai (For personal use it's free)
https://lmstudio.ai (For personal use it's free)
I mostly use Gemini since its multimodal and quick. It very easily helped me install linux on multiple systems and helped me with commands to get everything i wanted customised and running really easy. I do mix up depending on the task: Claude for coding, gemini for general queries and grok for general. Perplexity is good for researching. All the free versions, so their latest models hit the limit quick... At least gemini will then let you roll the conversation over to the lower model and thats still decent. (and has access to everything online for sources etc)
But i also run local models using ollama and OpenWebUi, i just havent fully setup my own ai agent yet (i have openclaw and agentzero dockers installed and only briefly tested)
Some boot times and tokens per second on my 16gb gpu.
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/21b88a74-5087-402f-8a93-a833218a6529
Also rumours that Gemma4 will be out if not end of feb, in the next month or so. (looking at when each gemma model was released in relation to each gemini model).
But i also run local models using ollama and OpenWebUi, i just havent fully setup my own ai agent yet (i have openclaw and agentzero dockers installed and only briefly tested)
Some boot times and tokens per second on my 16gb gpu.
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/21b88a74-5087-402f-8a93-a833218a6529
Also rumours that Gemma4 will be out if not end of feb, in the next month or so. (looking at when each gemma model was released in relation to each gemini model).
I have found myself using Google very differently than I have in the past. My queries are more often formulated as questions, and I'm asking much more complicated questions. This frequently triggers the "AI" blurb at the top, which I'll then sanity check or use it to dive deeper. It will even do some fairly complicated mathematics right from the search bar.
You can even type in stuff like this:
"Explain Bell's theorem's impact on true random."
It'll spit out a good enough answer for someone who knows nothing about the subject.
You can even type in stuff like this:
"Explain Bell's theorem's impact on true random."
It'll spit out a good enough answer for someone who knows nothing about the subject.
