JSON Results with Google Gemini Generative AI API Calls / / No Comments Forgive the somewhat alliterative title there, but today’s post covers something that’s been on my mind since I started playing with Google Gemini, specifically, how to get the results of your API calls in JSON. To be clear, the REST API returns a result in JSON, but I’m talking about the content of the result itself. Before I continue, a quick shot out to Allen Firstenberg who has been helping me off and on with Google Gemini stuff. Anything I get wrong though is entirely my fault. 😜 Ok, so before I go on, let’s look at a typical result. Take a prompt like so: "What is the nature of light". Pass this to Gemini via the API, and the result you get, once you... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Calls, Gemini, Generative, Google, JSON, results
Using PDF Content with Google Gemini / / No Comments Back in February Google announced Gemini 1.5, their latest, most powerful language model, and while access has been open via AI Studio, API access has only been available in the past few days. I thought I’d try out the new model and specifically make use of the larger context window to do prompts on PDF documents. I discussed something similar earlier this year(("Using AI and PDF Services to Automate Document Summaries")[https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/01/08/using-ai-and-pdf-services-to-automate-document-summaries]) which made use of Diffbot, so I thought it would be interesting to build a similar experience with the Gemini API. At a high level, it’s not too difficult: Begin... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Content, Gemini, Google, using
Google Gemini 1.5 Announced (and more new features) / / No Comments In general I don’t tend to blog about stuff that isn’t quite out yet, but as I’ve got early access (and permission to share), and as it’s pretty darn cool, I thought I’d share. Plus, some of the new stuff is available to everyone, so you can try it out as well! Today, Google introduced its newest language model, Gemini 1.5. You can, and probably should, read the marketing/nicely polished intro by Google here, but I thought I’d share some highlights and examples here. I’ve had access to this for a grand total of four hours so please consider this my first initial impressions. As the title says, this is not yet released, but you can sign up for the waitlist... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Announced, features, Gemini, Google, More
Google Gemini as Your Dungeon Master / / No Comments So this is absolutely just another example of me playing around too much, but I had to share. As I mentioned in my post yesterday, Google’s AI Studio now supports uploading files and working with them in your prompt. Today I decided to give the Chat interface a try as I hadn’t yet played with it. On a whim, I googled for "dungeons and dragons rules PDF" and… well, you won’t believe what happened next. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) First off, the most important thing to note if you want to test with PDFs, ensure that they are OCRed. Right now AI Studio does not handle that well, but it should be corrected in the future. My Google search turned up the PDF here,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Dungeon, Gemini, Google, master
Google Gemini and AI Studio Launch / / No Comments While it feels like just yesterday I first blogged about Google’s PaLM APIs and MakerSuite, it was actually over two months ago, and of course, GenAI offerings are iterating and improving at lightning speed. In the past week, Google has announced Gemini, their new generative AI model. Naturally, I was curious about the API aspect of this and took a quick look. MakerSuite rebranded as AI Studio # First off, the web UI (which I reviewed back in my first post) has been renamed to the generic and boring, but probably more enterprise and appropriate, AI Studio. Along with that, when creating new prompts, it will default to use Gemini models. (You can still select PaLM if you want.) Another change…... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Gemini, Google, launch, Studio
Creating Human-Readable Summaries of Data with Google PaLM Generative AI / / No Comments Like a lot of folks, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about generative AI, and AI, in general, and oddly (well for me), trying to focus on productive uses for it when working with APIs. A few weeks ago I shared my initial impressions of Google’s PaLM 2 API, and today I came up with an interesting use case for it. I’ve seen text summarization as a fairly common use case for gen AI, and I agree, it can be incredibly helpful when working with lots of text. However, I got to thinking today, would it be possible to use this as a way to summarize numerical, or other data? So given some process that returns a set of information, can we use gen AI to summarize it? Here’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: creating, data, Generative, Google, HumanReadable, palm, Summaries
Using Google PaLM to Gather Sentiment Analysis on a Forum / / No Comments I’ve really been enjoying working with Google’s PaLM 2 AI API and this week I used it to build a pretty interesting demo I think. What if we could use the generative AI features of PaLM to determine the ‘sentiment’ or general health of a forum? I was able to do so and I think the results are pretty interesting. I’ll remind my readers I’m still fairly new to this, so please reach out if you’ve got suggestions on how to do this better, or found any big mistakes in my implementation. Ok, let’s get started! Sentiment Analysis # In my first post on Google’s PaLM API, I talked about how their "MakerSuite" was a really cool web-based UI... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Analysis, Forum, Gather, Google, palm, Sentiment, using
Texting Email Summaries using Google PaLM AI and Twilio / / No Comments Yesterday I shared my initial impressions of working with Google’s PaLM 2 AI API. If you didn’t read that article, the tldr is that it’s incredibly easy to work with and I was able to get some Node.js code running in minutes. Exactly the kind of experience you want new developers to have with your product. Based on how easy it was to do that, I thought about building a real prototype of how the service could be used. What It Does # My simple prototype is based on the idea of handling an influx of emails. Imagine a support address or other important email address used for a company. If there is a lot of email coming in, or if the emails that do come in are critically important,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: email, Google, palm, Summaries, Texting, Twilio, using