Gemini Decisions API

(blog.google)

81 points | by iamdelirium 2 hours ago

9 comments

  • abhikul0 2 minutes ago
    There’s also this guide by google to use embedding gemma 2 as a decision maker. Wonder how these compare.

    https://developers.google.com/edge/mediapipe/solutions/decis...

  • eminence32 35 minutes ago
    I'm sort of surprised it took Jev for everyone to realize "oh yeah, this is a useful thing that we should have in our product portfolio".

    But maybe this is one of those things that's only obvious in retrospect? I'm sure people were trying something similar years ago with grammar-constrained outputs (for example to only output a simple json structure), but you can't get probabilities out of the model that way. Which makes me wonder: how do these models calculate probabilities?

    • JamesSwift 2 minutes ago
      I think its more like how LLMs caught everyone by surprise. A reasonable person would not think such a simple system would have been this effective, and yet here we are. Distilling that system down even further into a decision model again does not seem like it should work. But it seems to.

      The whole system is foreign to us, and makes us rethink what "intelligence" actually is.

    • NitpickLawyer 11 minutes ago
      You can do it with LLMs by looking at the logprobs of ('yes', 'Yes', 'YES'...) vs. ('no'...). This works for bool or whatever they call it in jev space nool I think?

      You can do it manually or use ready made libs. I know there's one in python on top of vllm that can do something like this.

      • ak681443 6 minutes ago
        Not reliably - look at microsoft's guidance project that did some of this.

        Once a model goes through instruction fine tuning and RLVR/RLHF the log probs decorrelate from what's ground truth (given the propensity of the data seen during training)

  • waximabbax 2 hours ago
    Its bit more expensive than other other Decision Models in the same lane.

    However, it can accept Audio and Video as input as well and for those specific cases it can be extremely useful.

  • kaycebasques 23 minutes ago
  • pratzc07 21 minutes ago
    So is it over for Jev now that the big boys are in the game
  • iamdelirium 2 hours ago
    Looks like Google announced their own Jev inspired API and model
    • dude250711 1 hour ago
      It was a hot topic 2 months ago.
  • florkbork 54 minutes ago
    Meanwhile, they are suffocating Jules today (https://killedbygoogle.com/) with a metaphorical pillow to the face and no migration path mapped out for casual users apart from "use antigravity" in a 1 line high banner; after about a year of existence.

    It seems unlikely this will be around in 6 months at this rate.

    • Catloafdev 39 minutes ago
      That doesn't make any sense, this is a Jev competitor and a model release, like their Carbon and Argon models. It won't simply be 'killed' like apps might without something to succeed it.
    • kasperset 34 minutes ago
      Barring Search, Gmail, and YouTube I am really wary of using anything from Google now.
  • dogoodsci 12 minutes ago
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  • IncreasePosts 47 minutes ago
    It took OpenAI 2 weeks after Jev to release a decision end point, and now google does it 2 months later. Why such a difference? Bureaucracy? Quality control?
    • iamdelirium 11 minutes ago
      Looking at their benchmarks, it's actually a better model than OpenAI and Jev (which in the same evals is worst than Jev?).