My first language is Afrikaans, which is a somewhat niche language and hard to find teachers/conversation buddies outside South Africa. (I live in USA now)
I've been using Gemini to live chat in Afrikaans and do impromptu Afrikaans grammar lessons during my solo drives around town. It is phenomenal at speaking the language - like, it really shocks my family members when they hear it.
This is probably the most joy I get from any of my usages of LLMs/AIs. It's been really, really nice getting to speak my language regularly again. =)
So, I'm excited about this release and live chat getting better. I also hope the other frontier labs pick up niche languages like this as well so that I have more options.
I love Gemini in Google Maps for long drives. I start getting bored of music and podcasts and start grilling it with random questions I've always wondered about.
I do this too! Usually some idea in ML ...when I am driving I might suddenly remember what I was thinking about and then it is my personal podcast via Gemini-in-Maps. My only complaint is if you have follow up questions, you have to be quick, otherwise it cuts off the mic.
Even as a human being who has a working brain and all this thinking power, I am not sure how I would answer that. It's kind of funny Gemini will still come up with something and even suggest follow-ons to the conversation but saying all that stuff as a human to another human would be a wild response to that question.
jeanbza · · focus · HN ↗
I've been using Gemini to live chat in Afrikaans and do impromptu Afrikaans grammar lessons during my solo drives around town. It is phenomenal at speaking the language - like, it really shocks my family members when they hear it.
This is probably the most joy I get from any of my usages of LLMs/AIs. It's been really, really nice getting to speak my language regularly again. =)
So, I'm excited about this release and live chat getting better. I also hope the other frontier labs pick up niche languages like this as well so that I have more options.
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How did the early Roman Empire interact with Greek city states?
How are LLMs planning on learning new information on the fly without new context or retraining runs?
Why did mom leave?
You know, standard stuff.
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Even as a human being who has a working brain and all this thinking power, I am not sure how I would answer that. It's kind of funny Gemini will still come up with something and even suggest follow-ons to the conversation but saying all that stuff as a human to another human would be a wild response to that question.