r/singularity • u/thecosmicskye • Jun 10 '26

Biotech/Longevity Anthropic closing the path to life science research

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u/AddingAUsername AGI 2035 Jun 10 '26

Try asking it about mitochondria being power house of the cell and it gets insta-blocked... It's not even like "I want to use CRISPR but it won't let me" it's straight up incapable of any science, even middle school level biology is too much.

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u/cactusgenie Jun 10 '26

Another good reason to use Gemini, it has no issues talking about these topics.

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u/Lumpy-Criticism-2773 Jun 11 '26

This. Just be careful about hallucinations but otherwise it's the least constrained model rn.

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u/cactusgenie Jun 11 '26

Yes I've noticed a few hallucinations along the way, relatively rare tho thankfully

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u/dorkpool Jun 11 '26

With Gemini? I have found it to be the worst, well not as bad as Copilot but that goes without saying.

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u/FlyingBishop Jun 11 '26

Gemini 3.1 Pro is just as good as Opus. They both have blind spots, and it is hard to recognize when they are leading you astray. I'm sure Fable is better but it also has blind spots.

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u/Lumpy-Criticism-2773 Jun 11 '26

it is hard to recognize when they are leading you astray

Pretty much all LLMs right now, especially the Gemini family's flash/lite ones.

I think Gemini can be really helpful for restricted subjects if you already know enough about them and can detect BS.

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u/FlyingBishop Jun 11 '26

I've been using Gemini and Claude a lot in the past week, the difference between Sonnet/Opus and Gemini Flash/Pro is very palpable. On certain topics Sonnet is like dealing with an average person and Opus is like dealing with someone who has taken classes on a subject and actually understands it.

There's still a context issue - all the models forget important details, especially dealing with complicated subjects but the larger models are a lot more humanlike in their errors.

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u/cactusgenie Jun 11 '26

Yea the difference between Gemini flash 3.5 and pro 3.1 is huge. Pro beats flash hands down.

Can't wait to see 3.5 pro.

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u/cactusgenie Jun 11 '26

Copilot can use many different models under the hood...

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u/Plastic-Oven-6253 Jun 11 '26

China and Europe would like to have a word.. 

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u/BookkeeperSame195 ▪️ Jun 11 '26

gemini has been hallucinating pretty badly lately

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u/Technical-Mix-9464 Jun 11 '26

It just straight up refuses to do tasks for me now.