For the record

I am writing so much about Gemini that I am losing track of when he does well and when he does not so well. This is also true to a lesser extent of Google's other offerings, in particular the AI summary provided for search results, either of the classic variety or of the Images variety. And then there are Bing, Copilot - and even Acrobat, which is now offering AI summaries of documents which it thinks are too long for you to be bothered to read without some help.

So I think I need to mark stuff up so that I can find it again. And I think marking up the stuff itself, rather than keeping an offline log, which I did do in the early days, going back to Gemini's parent Bard, which involves duplication, more effort and probably more errors. Turning up this log today, I find that an early entry involved reference 2, the Bard bit of which is included above. But tricking Bard into telling me all about a fictitious battle involving Vikings and Swaffham Bulbeck did not seem to have made the cut.

First thought today was to use a Likert scale, the sort of thing snapped above and described in some detail at reference 1 below. But on reflection, I decided that this was too complicated and might fall foul of search engines not handling strings like 'abc=3' very well. Aka '<property_name>=<property_value>'. Or '<attribute_name>=<attribute_value>'. 

So for now, the thought is that I will mark significant AI events with the search key 'aisk' and allow the optional qualifiers 'aigoodsk' and 'aibadsk'. We will see how we get on.

Noting the catch that including these search keys in this post, will bring it up in every search, which might be tiresome.

PS 1: the trailing 'sk' has worked well enough elsewhere, for example for pianos and fakes, to exclude false positives.

PS 2: digging a bit deeper for the battle mentioned above turns up reference 3 below. Maybe memory defective again. But digressing to reference 4, I find this morning that Gemini does much better now on the Toller giant (aka the Eynesbury giant) than ChatGPT appeared to have done three years ago. Inter alia, pointing me to references 5 and 6. After which Google Images took me to the decent copy of the image above.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/07/goatleafed.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/02/chatter.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-disappointment.html.

Reference 5: https://www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/collections/james-toller-eynesbury-giant/.

Reference 6a: https://www.michellebullivant.com/.

Reference 6b: https://www.michellebullivant.com/cambridgehistory/toller-family-tree. Hemingford Grey gets a mention, where my paternal grandfather was farming (mainly fruit) at the beginning of the twentieth century. The farm house survives, but the farm is now a small housing estate.