5 Things Gemini Still Can’t Do Keep Paying for ChatGPT

Twins is the swiss army knife of the artificial intelligence world. Powered by Google, it’s available on all platforms and deeply integrated into Android, allowing it to do things that no other chatbot can do right now. And the speed at which Google Gemini is up to speed with its competitors is simply remarkable. Having said that, it often feels like ChatGPT has made the best of its first-mover advantage, maintaining its lead in overall usability and response quality even today.

I jump between Gemini and ChatGPT throughout the day for various tasks, using each extensively. Although I have access to the full capabilities of Gemini through my Google AI Pro plan, I continue to subscribe to ChatGPT separately because Google’s AI chatbot still doesn’t feel like it’s there, and these are my reasons.

There have been a few times where I’ve given Twins fairly long instructions and he’ll skip over a few of them as if they were never there. This happened in individual conversations and even inside notebooks that had to piece together context from multiple conversations. I experimented with Gemini employs a full-fledged expense manager Recently and I have encountered this problem several times where I refuse to follow the instructions.

Also, Gemini’s scheduled tasks feature has completely given up on me for the past few weeks. It just wouldn’t work despite me issuing commands to restart the table several times and even manually turning on the switch. Whether that’s a bug or something, I’m not sure, but the fact is that Gemini still feels like a work in progress and could use some polishing before it feels truly reliable.

I’d easily forgive this for such relatively minor hiccups, but I’ve had a more consistent and reliable experience with ChatGPT over the past few years than to put up with any mishaps on the Gemini side.

It’s a little subjective, but it means a lot to me because I’ve been using ChatGPT forever. It has a lot of personal context that I have intentionally shared through hundreds of personal and business conversations.

This is a very difficult thing to replicate when starting with a new chatbot. And Gemini, despite its extensive Personal Intelligence capabilities through the wider Google ecosystem, has so far failed to do that for me. Twins has a built-in tool to help you import your conversations and personal context from other AI chatbots, but I’ve never felt compelled to make the full switch given the reliability issues I’ve been constantly facing.

Nano managed to create Banana-armed Twins and edit some remarkable footage. However, once you try out ChatGPT’s newly released image creation model, you’ll find that the Google alternative lags a bit behind. When editing photos or creating vectors, I found that 10 out of 10 times the Gemini distorted colors, even when I gave it custom hex codes. And after a simple touch-up, it makes the photos either too dull or unnecessarily bright.

While I wouldn’t say ChatGPT does a flawless job as a professional photo editor, it does feel better at following my cues and keeping the color palette consistent during side-by-side editing cycles. The Gemini feels faster at rendering images, but I don’t mind waiting an extra minute for ChatGPT’s noticeably better performance.

Being a Google product, I automatically assumed it would be Gemini is the best tool for web searchGiven how much internet information Google Search has, however, this is surprisingly not true. In everyday life, I rely on AI tools to get my morning news, including a summary of all the previous day’s tech news.

Right off the bat, both Gemini and ChatGPT are tasked with looking up certain websites I follow closely and giving me a quick rundown of everything important to look at. Even after my repeated recommendations to compile a more detailed list that doesn’t miss even the smallest Android tweaks, Gemini continues to miss a few important bits of information that ChatGPT picks up more consistently. It’s embarrassing how lacking Gemini feels when it comes to accessing information from the internet in real time.

If you live in the Google ecosystem, Gemini is great. It can be Connect with Gmail, Docs, and Keep Google Flights and Hotels to help with your productivity needs and even help you plan a trip on a budget. Google even has its own video creation and editing tools. However, it still hasn’t built a meaningful connection with the outside world, which is crucial when so many of us rely on several non-Google apps for everyday tasks, ChatGPT does one thing right.

For example, while Gemini can only help you with music discovery and playlist creation through YouTube Music, ChatGPT can do the same for both Spotify and Apple Music. It connects with a number of third-party travel services, such as Expedia and Skyscanner, while also allowing you to use DoorDash and Uber within the app. I’m especially a fan of its integration with Canva (which is my primary image editing tool), where I can simply have ChatGPT create and edit content on my behalf.

After using both of them a lot, I realized that I often consciously force myself to use Gemini for certain tasks. Whereas ChatGPT is just instinctive. It’s so ingrained in my muscle memory that chatgpt.com is the URL I automatically type into the address bar with my fingers whenever an AI-friendly question pops into my head. This says a lot about what kind of habit change Gemini will have to make, and I believe it will not be an easy feat.