The first Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking Mode" model came...

The first Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking Mode" model came out today. I've updated my llm-gemini plugin to support it and ran a few test prompts - it's a very interesting new entrant in the o1-inspired "inference scaling" category of models.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/

Like 20 December at 0:17 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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Simon Willison

The most impressive example I've seen so far involves vision input:

llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219 \
-a http''s://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/geometry.png \
"What's the area of the overlapping region?"

Geometric diagram showing a blue circle with radius 3 intersected by a green right triangle. The triangle has side lengths of 6 and the right angled corner of the triangle is positioned on the central point of the circle.

Text showing math solution steps. The overlapping region is a sector of the circle. The angle of this sector is the angle between the two legs of the right triangle, which is 90 degrees. The area of a sector of a circle is given by the formula: Area of sector = θ/360 × πr² where θ is the central angle of the sector in degrees, and r is the radius of the circle. In this case, θ = 90 degrees and r = 3. Area of overlapping region = 90/360 × π(3)² Area of overlapping region = 1/4 × 9π Area of overlapping region = 9π/4 Final Answer: The final answer is 9π/4

20 December at 0:23 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Max von Webel

@simon In one hand: yeah, this is pretty impressive. On the other: is it really when it only takes a single look without even thinking to solve it in your head?

20 December at 0:28 | Open on mastodon.social

Michael Hunger

@simon thanks, I ran some fun prompts, some good reasoning there but not perfect, still lots of bias

llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219 "will AI agents be the better incarnation of homo economicus than humans (homo sapiens) and what outcomes will this lead to?"

llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219 "what is the main successful cause for stopping climate change in the book 'the ministry of the future'? Evaluate and rank all contenders and present a reasoning for the final selection"

20 December at 0:44 | Open on chaos.social