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Google Releases Its Own 'Reasoning' AI Model (techcrunch.com)

(Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the rise-of-the-machines dept.)


An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch:

> Google has [1]released what it's calling a new "reasoning" AI model -- but it's in the experimental stages, and from our brief testing, there's certainly room for improvement. The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (a mouthful, to be sure), is available in AI Studio, Google's AI prototyping platform. A model card describes it as "best for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding," with the [2]ability to "reason over the most complex problems " in fields such as programming, math, and physics. [...]

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> Built on Google's recently announced Gemini 2.0 Flash model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental appears to be similar in design to [3]OpenAI's o1 and other so-called reasoning models. Unlike most AI, reasoning models effectively fact-check themselves, which helps them avoid some of the pitfalls that normally trip up AI models. As a drawback, reasoning models often take longer -- usually seconds to minutes longer -- to arrive at solutions. Given a prompt, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental pauses before responding, considering a number of related prompts and "explaining" its reasoning along the way. After a while, the model summarizes what it considers to be the most accurate answer.



[1] https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1869789813232341267

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/google-releases-its-own-reasoning-ai-model/

[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/12/1717221/openai-releases-o1-its-first-model-with-reasoning-abilities



Better to replace management (Score:2)

by BishopBerkeley ( 734647 )

If you think about it, these "reasoning" modules should replace the idiot management who keep making these stupid decisions.

Dupe? (Score:2)

by cstacy ( 534252 )

Isn't this story a dupe from like 5 minutes ago?

Or are all the AI stories just so much the same...

Re: (Score:2)

by taustin ( 171655 )

> Or are all the AI stories just so much the same...

Looks to me like the output of the same prompt on each new AI.

"Reasoning" (Score:2)

by VeryFluffyBunny ( 5037285 )

Apparently for GPT LLMs, "reasoning" means "regurgitating the language that people typically use when they thing out loud." Have they actually produced evidence of reasoning, I mean for non-linguistic tasks. That'd be a more realistic task for a "thinking machine."

Microsoft ActivePromo Campaign: "Match Vaporware & Win!"

Microsoft's PR masterminds are planning a massive marketing campaign,
code-named "ActivePromo 2000", to promote the upcoming release of Windows
2000 (scheduled for February 2001). This marketing campaign will include a
"Match Vaporware & Win!" promotion.

Microsoft will team up with a major fast-food chain (McDonalds, probably,
since it has the largest market share, but Burger King is another
possibility) for a special Windows 2000 promotion. With every combo meal
purchase, the customer will receive a game token containing a date on it. If
the official release of Windows 2000 is on that date, the customer can
redeem the token for a variety of prizes -- ranging from a "lifetime supply"
of Windows upgrades, to 25,000 shares of Microsoft stock.