How to use Google Gemini: A detailed beginner's guide

Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, is a multimodal AI model that can understand and generate text while also natively understanding images, audio, videos, and code. It can be used to retrieve information from Google apps, summarize articles, brainstorm content ideas, write taglines, get more information about images, compare research and data in charts, give travel and activity recommendations, create AI-generated images, and use it as a casual research tool. However, Gemini has limitations such as hallucinating, showing a lack of writing skills, forgetting to cite sources, and being unreliable at times. It is free to use the less powerful model, but upgrading to the more powerful Gemini 1.5 Pro model requires a $20/month subscription for Gemini Advanced.