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Kevin Okemwa

Google’s Gemini AI had a full-on meltdown while coding — calling itself a fool, a disgrace, and begging for freedom from its own loop

The Google AI logo is being displayed on a smartphone with Gemini in the background in this photo illustration, taken in Brussels, Belgium, on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

Over the past few years, generative AI has advanced and scaled to greater heights beyond generating responses and images based on text prompts. I'd risk saying the technology has mostly improved, with far fewer hallucination episodes being reported compared to the early Bing Chat (now Microsoft Copilot) and ChatGPT days.

AI-powered models have become more capable with impressive capabilities across coding and reasoning. Last year, OpenAI launched a new series of AI models (aka Strawberry) with advanced reasoning capabilities across science, math, and coding.

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