Takeaways: For now, ChatGPT is still the king of general knowledge.
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Google's December 2023 release of Gemini was a heralded event since Google's brand recognition for big data is unmatched. The industry's leading platform for writing, up until the time, was ChatGPT 4 (released March 2023). Even with nine months between the two, for the applications I have found most intensive and valuable, ChatGPT is still miles ahead of Gemini.
I am not talking about the quality of image generation, the ability to solve equations or to code. I am just talking about accessing and presenting general knowledge.
Over the past three months, I have been conducting extensive historical research on the evolution of human and digital communications - human and AI writing, human and AI image creation, human and AI music composition & songwriting, and human and AI vocal reproduction.
In hundreds (maybe thousands) of A/B testing queries I have conducted, Chat's insights are richer almost every time. Its detail is more helpful, and its ability to organize large bodies of related ideas remains unmatched by Gemini.
That is not to say Gemini is a scrub. It's solid. But Gemini still appears sophomoric against its collegiate-level big brother.
In the interest of keeping this post brief, I won't include examples. I'll leave it there.
The article yesterday about Google's apology, which amounted to something like, We are sorry Gemini has recently been, because of its training bias, unable/unwilling to create images of white people, opting only to generate images of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, or Native Americans, caused a lot of brow furrowing. As a half-white, half-Asian, I was ambivalent but amused about this historical twist.
The truth is stranger than fiction.