Google’s Gemini Advanced has emerged as a significant contender against OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4. Both AI models boast impressive capabilities, but each has unique strengths and weaknesses. Here, we provide a detailed comparison to help you decide which model fits your requirements best.
Key Features of Both Models
- Cost: $20 a month (Gemini offers a free 2-month trial)
- Multi-modal input and output
- Internet connectivity
- Inconsistent output and occasional hallucinations
- Efforts to reduce model bias, though not entirely eliminated
- Occasional “uncanny behavior” mimicking human responses
Head-to-Head Comparison
Pros
OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4
- Faster response time, especially for complex queries
- Superior logical reasoning
- Excels at complex verbal tasks
- Better at staying on topic and minimizing hallucinations
- Supports multiple file uploads in a single chat
- Superior data analysis and complex math capabilities
- Fewer restrictions on response requests
- Better context retention in long conversations
Google’s Gemini Advanced
- Smoother user experience with fewer glitches
- Provides better explanations for its responses
- Excels at language translation
- Enhanced search capabilities integrating Google search results, images, and YouTube
- Can generate near-photographic quality images
- Image analysis capabilities (location and other details)
- Useful integrations with YouTube, Maps, Google Flights, and Google Hotels
- Ability to double-check responses via Google Search
Cons
OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4
- Less advanced image generation
- Less integrated search functions, which need manual activation
- Less user-friendly interface
Google’s Gemini Advanced
- More restrictive image generation, particularly for human subjects
- Occasional lapses in functionality memory
- Limited file upload support, currently restricted to images
