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Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

More like a collection of descriptions in the training data. It's not a copy and paste thing, they successfully generalise and extend concepts together quite often.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying "similar to", but that is a more accurate explanation.