Updates

Author: guydavis

_posts/2024-12-08-google-ai-studio.markdown

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-After I completed a [5-day course](https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/google-generative-ai-intensive) last month covering Google's current AI offerings, I wanted to play around in the [Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com/) a bit more. In particular, I wanted to check out the Gemini LLM via some prompts.
+After I completed a [5-day course](https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/google-generative-ai-intensive) last month covering Google's current AI offerings, I wanted to play around in the [Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com/) a bit more. In particular, I wanted to check out the Gemini LLM via some prompts.  Initially, I used the Gemini v1.5 Flash model.
 
-## Gemini Sample Prompts
+## Gemini v1.5 Sample Prompts
 
 Here's an example prompt in the Studio, asking about plantcare based on a photo input.  
 
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 <img src="/img/posts/google-ai-studio-santa-claus.png" class="img-fluid" />
 
 
+## Gemini v2.0 Sample Prompts
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+A few days after I posted above using Gemini v1.5, Google [annouced Gemini v2.0](https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024) and made it available to test within Google AI Studio.  So, I went back and tried out the same sample prompts.
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+Interestingly, using the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model, providing the same input photo and prompt as before.
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+<img src="/img/posts/google-ai-studio-plantcare-v2.png" class="img-fluid" />
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+ I was told it was a different plant than Gemini v1.5 labelled.  As I am not a botanist or florist, I actually don't know which (if either) model labelling is correct.  This is a good example of non-experts being convinced of LLM output, even when it may be plain wrong.  
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+Gemini v1.5 and v2.0 both handled the structured output task for trip recommendations nearly identically.
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+The letter from Santa to Emma, seemed to have a little more *heart* using the Gemini v2.0 model:
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+<img src="/img/posts/google-ai-studio-santa-claus-v2.png" class="img-fluid" />
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+P.S. For those interested, the 5-day course I took is now available as a [Learning Guide](https://www.kaggle.com/learn-guide/5-day-genai) so don't feel left out if you missed it first time.
 
 ### More in this series...
 * [Google Gemini](/2024/02/16/google-gemini) - Google Gemini