Comment by jwpapi

15 days ago

I’m curious about your curiosity driven queries. Mind to share?

I'm not the person to whom you're replying, but I just tried one of mine:

"I'm interested in understanding the rate of VOC dissipation from fresh oil paint on a surface versus the ventilation rate in the room in ACH. I would prefer solid academic studies of this, followed by analytical evaluation, followed by references to non-quantitative sources. Tell me what's known about this."

that I had run in ChatGPT earlier this week. (Yes, we just had our bedroom repainted, and it's TERRIBLE and I hate it, why do you ask? :-).

I didn't try it first in Gemini Flash, but I did try it in whatever model is used for Gemini Live and the answers were terrible. The ChatGPT answer (I think on medium) was pretty good but it threw in extraneous formulae that weren't actually germane to the analysis. The Argon 4 query I just ran was honestly the best of the answers I've gotten -- it was clear and really well-structured from the perspective of "here are the three big phases that researchers break down paint drying into and what the differing effects of ACH are on those phases".

I'm totally going to give this one a try, after basically giving up on 3.8 flash for most things despite having a free $20 pro subscription (from buying a phone).

Edited to add:

Argon4 transcript: https://share.gemini.google/18Gr5liH1YWR

ChatGPT transcript: https://chatgpt.com/share/6acedc72-ff18-83ea-8909-104cdbc6ac...

I am a professional bassoon player. I asked about multiphonic fingerings. It could actually suggest corrections for the fingerings that did not work.