Google is upgrading Gemini to 1.5 Flash. That should reduce the chatbot’s response time. In addition, Google is introducing a new feature to address hallucinations further.
Currently, gemini.google.com and the Gemini apps use Gemini 1.5 Flash for faster and better responses. The upgrade is also available in the free version.
Users not only get higher-quality answers but are also allowed to ask more complex questions. This is made possible by expanding the context window to 32,000 tokens. Soon, it will also be possible to ask the chatbot a question about a Google Drive file. That support will be extended from Gemini Advanced, the paid version of the AI tool, to the free version. At the same time, it will be possible to upload locally saved files into the AI tool.
Gemini 1.5 Flash is available immediately. The upgrade is being implemented in 40 languages.
Reducing hallucinations
Google noted that many users use the chat tool to answer search questions. That’s where hallucinations are more likely to occur due to the lack of more recent data in training data from the LLM that Gemini works on. Google is now trying to make answers more accurate by providing answers with links to related content. Users can then verify the answer for accuracy themselves. This only comes at the expense of the speed and efficiency of submitting a search query to Gemini. Moreover, the feature is only available for English-language prompts and in a limited number of countries.
From a similar idea, OpenAI recently introduced its own search engine. In SearchGPT, users get answers to search questions without a list of related web links. However, the sources used in the answer are shown.
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