Google CEO Sundar Pichai reveals how he uses Gemini AI

Google recently launched Gemini Advanced – a subscription-based AI chatbot that the company says is most capable yet. This version is powered by Gemini Ultra 1.0 LLM that company CEO Sundar Pichai said is “first to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding)”. He was recently asked how he uses Gemini and the top executive said he uses the chatbot to brush up his coding skills.

“We have been having fun with it. I have been brushing up my coding skills,” Pichai said in a recent interview with CNBC. He highlighted how Gemini can make sense of images and discussed a use-case scenario.

“A friend of mine wanted to put a house up for sale. He put a few pictures in it [Gemini] and asked it to write a copy. It understood the architecture of the home, it looked at the furnishings,” Pichai said.

“It definitely wrote a better copy than either of us could have. When I find interesting things on my phone I am looking at, I just ask about it and it can give me added information. All of that is fascinating to see,” Pichai added.

Bard is now GeminiPichai also talked about why the company chose to rename Bard to Gemini. He said that Gemini is the company’s approach overall in terms of building a capable and safe AI model.

“For us, Gemini is our approach overall in terms of how we are building our most capable and safe AI model and Bard was the most direct way that people could interact with our models so it really made sense to just evolve it to be Gemini because you are talking directly to the underlying Gemini model when you use it,” Pichai explained.

“I think it will also be the way by which we will keep advancing our models and users can experience it directly, so we thought the name change made sense,” he added.

He also explained that Gemini Advanced is far more capable at reasoning, following instructions, coding, and creative collaboration than previous models.

“For example, it can be a personal tutor, tailored to your learning style. Or it can be a creative partner, helping you plan a content strategy or build a business plan,” he wrote in a blog post.

Google claims that its largest model Ultra 1.0 can “outperform human experts on MMLU,” which uses a combination of 57 subjects — including math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics — to test knowledge and problem-solving abilities.