How To Use New Google Gemini (Gemini AI Tutorial) Complete Guide With Tips and Tricks

So, since Google Gemini actually got an update, I wanted to make an updated tutorial on all of the things that you can now do with Gemini, including some tips and tricks. There are a lot of things that people actually don't know, and Google has put some links in places they shouldn't be, so I'm here to just give you guys the full rundown on how you can actually use this and be really effective. One of the first things you should do when coming into the app is, of course, you want to go into your settings and then you want to just hit dark mode.

Now, I did this because in previous tutorials, I know that a lot of people prefer watching them in dark mode because it's just way too bright. You can do that down at the bottom right there. Now, in addition to that, what you also want to make sure is—and this is something that I've made mistakes with before—is that when you're starting to use Gemini, you always want to make sure that depending on your task, you either use Gemini or Gemini Advanced.

Now, this does seem quite basic, but sometimes when your membership buds get canceled, Gemini doesn't actually explicitly tell you this, and it will just automatically switch back to Gemini. So, if you see just Gemini right here, always just double-check which one you're on. Gemini Advanced is for more ambitious products that require more cognitive ability, so for example, coding and just things about physics or whatever—stuff that's a little bit more advanced.

But Gemini Standard is for very easy things like translations, messages, and emails, so that is the key difference there. Now that you have this, I'm going to show you guys some of the cool things that you can do. One of the things that you also want to do quickly before you start is you want to click your extensions, and then down here what you want to do is make sure that you've got these all ticked.

Now, I've got these all ticked because I want to be able to use them and show you guys what you can do with this later on in the video. So tick these because this is going to give you more access to Gemini. So, one of the first things you can actually do is you can type in "@" right here.

So when you type in "@" right here, you can see that we have several different apps that we can connect with and that we can use. For example, if I wanted to connect with my Gmail, I can then use this to search for a relevant email. So, for example, what I can do is say, "Hey, Gmail," so I just want to click this "@" button here, click Gmail, and then I'm just going to ask it, "What properties have been emailed to me?

What deals are on the table? " Okay, so I'm just literally going to ask, "What properties have been emailed to me, and what deals are on the table? " So now it's going to access my emails, search through this, and I think that this is really, really effective because when you know what Gemini is able to do, you can combine that with certain things and then get a comprehensive overview of your Gmail.

So it might take around 10 to 20 seconds, but you can see right here, it's showing me now all of the deals that I've been emailed over the past couple of weeks, or maybe just last week. You can see that right there; this looks really cool. Now, another thing that you can do—and this is what I would do if I was using information from my Gmail—and this is something that is not unique to Gemini, but it's a unique feature that Gemini has always had, though most people don't realize you can do this.

Okay, and I'm going to show you guys how to do this again. Essentially, what you want to do here is say, "Make this data into a table. " Okay, so now I'm going to say to Gemini, because what Gemini can do is it can actually turn the information that you have into a table.

So all you want to do is ask Gemini, "Can you make this data into a table? " And then you can see right here, it's managing to go ahead and put this into a table, and it says it's in a list format. So I'm just going to have to wait for it to do that, and you can see right here that it manages to get all of this data into a quick table that I can then use.

Now, I've got to be honest, this is a pretty long table. You can see all of the descriptions, all of the yields, and all of the prices, which is pretty cool. I really do like this.

Of course, this could be a little bit better, but this is a lot more organized than this. And this is one of the ways that people are saving lots of time because, I'm sure you get emailed a lot of different things all the time. I know that literally everyone has a Gmail account, so using this and then saying, "Put this into a table," I mean, you could filter this even more.

You could say, "Give me deals that are only above 5%, deals that are only below 5%, give me deals in a certain area," and then you could do that. Now, what's also cool about Gemini is that when working with tables, is that. .

. You can also export this to Sheets, so I can click "Export to Sheets" right here. This is basically just Google's version of Excel.

I'm going to click "Open Sheets," and then once you're in here, you can, of course, have this information, and you can literally do whatever you want with it. Now, another thing that I really like about Gemini, which most people don't really take advantage of because they just don't know it exists, is that you can also use the app button to use YouTube, and then you can analyze certain videos. I'm going to paste the link in after saying "at YouTube," and then I'm going to say, "Can you tell me what this is about and summarize it in bullet points?

" I'm going to literally just ask it to summarize in bullet points, and this is a really good feature if you're trying to save time. Hopefully, they do add this in the actual YouTube app. But you can see right here I've just added a video based on Google's I/O that was really recent.

You can see right here that this is something that gives you a quick overview in bullet points. You can make it shorter, you can make it longer—it depends on what you want to do. So, of course, this is something that is really, really time-saving.

This is something that you're going to want to do. Now, in addition to that, I'm going to show you guys one more thing before I move on to some of the other features. You can see right here as well that you can actually use Google Drve to find stuff.

If you're having any trouble finding something in your document, you can locate that document, and then Google can help find it for you with Gemini. This is really useful because, when you search in your Google Drve, you don't actually search the PDFs—you only search the titles of the PDFs. So, it's very, very useful to use this.

I'm going to show you guys how to do that. For example, to demonstrate just how good Google Drve is, this is something that is genuinely a time-saver. I'm going to show you guys a PDF.

I'm going to upload it, and I'm going to show you how to find it based on some obscure information in the PDF. So, let me get you a PDF example. Let's say I have this PDF, and it’s about the capabilities of Gemini models in medicine.

This is a pretty obscure PDF because I've saved it with a bunch of random letters. With this, I’m going to upload it to a new folder. Now, what I'm going to do is literally just upload this PDF.

You can see the PDF right here; it shows that it's literally called "Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine. " This is in a folder called "Gemini Stuff," and you can see that the title of this folder is really strange, but that doesn't matter at all. What I'm going to do now is ask something about the document.

I'm going to say, "Which document in my Google Drve talks about the capabilities of large language models in medicine? " You just type "at Drve," then type in "which file in my drive talks about the capabilities of LLMs in medicine. " I'm going to actually try and spell that properly.

Now, I've literally just asked it to search through my documents and say, "Which file in my drive talks about the capabilities of LLMs in medicine? " It's now going to assess the documents and find the relevant one. The reason I like this so much is that it is very, very effective at doing this, and it shows how good it really is at retrieval.

You can see right here it says, "This PDF discusses the capabilities of Gemini models in medicine," and you can see it’s literally right there—those are the items considered for the response. I think this saves so much time because I have so many files in Drve, and oftentimes I misplace them. I want to know if they're deleted, and Google Gemini can literally scour through all of your files and quickly find something that you really need.

This is a major time-saver, so I would definitely incorporate this into your workflow. Now, one of the newer features with Gemini that I really do like is that you can click this plus button here, and now we actually do have the ability to upload files. Previously, we couldn't upload files, but now, with the one million context length, we can actually upload files and then analyze those files.

I'm just going to upload the same PDF right here, and I'm going to say, "Summarize this and give me the key points in bullet points. " Okay, this is really, really good because now we can literally just import any PDF and ask it to talk about it straight away. Right now, it’s analyzing and reading the document, working on the response.

This is something that is really, really good in terms of what it's able to find. You can see it's able to give me the bullet points of this PDF—a real, real time-saver. I would argue that, compared to other ones, this is really, really good because Google Gemini is focused on long-term use.

Context: So, with PDFs, it's going to be really, really effective. Now, something that you can do that I find really, really nice with this is, because you can upload so much content, you can draw different responses and different conclusions from the data that you're getting. For example, I'm going to upload two different PDFs, and then I'm going to ask Gemini to draw conclusions between these PDFs.

I've uploaded two PDFs, one on misalignment and catastrophe and one on AI safety frameworks, and I'm literally going to say, "What are the similarities between these two PDFs? " So, I'm literally just going to go ahead and ask it what the similarities are between these two PDFs, and then it's going to go ahead, analyze the two PDFs, get some information, and bring me a response. This is really, really good for analyzing work documents or analyzing your thoughts.

Organizing your thoughts and being able to cross-reference multiple files gives you a new way to look at things. You can say both documents discuss the risks of generative AI, emphasizing they need y, y, y. They both highlight the potential of y, y, y, and you can see it gives you the sources.

Now, of course, there are many different ways that you can do this. You can prompt it to say, you know, draw something in a table about the similarities or whatever, but just having access to multiple file uploads is something that is really good. In addition to this, you can use the upload image feature, and it's really good at image identification.

For example, if I have an image, I can literally say, "What is this image of? " This is pretty basic, but if you want to know what car it is, you could simply ask, "What is this image of? " It's going to give you a very specific one.

You can see here it doesn't just say, "This features a blue sports car winding down a road. " What it actually does say is, "This is the image of a Maserati MC20, a high-performance sports car manufactured by Maserati. " I think that that is important because it allows you to understand what things are.

You are allowed to ask different questions; knowing the make and model of the car is really important because these extra details can help you truly understand what's inside of an image. One thing that you can't do with Gemini Advanced at the moment is identify images of people. I'm not sure why; I’m guessing it's just a privacy issue.

Images with any faces or people are simply identified, and then the details are removed at the moment, so this is something that you can't currently do, which is a small limitation. If you're wondering what things you can analyze, you can analyze locations, you can analyze plants, for example, you can analyze different species of plants. I'm not someone who's like a botanist or anything like that; this is not really my interest, but I looked into a plant that is quite rare, and you can see that it's easily able to analyze.

One of the key features of Gemini—I don't know why this is, but for whatever reason, it's really good at analyzing certain images and actually cross-referencing that with Google. I'm not sure what they use in their training data, but as far as I know, they have really, really comprehensive training data, meaning that they're able to completely analyze what's going on in the image and really understand what's in there. Now, something that G is really, really cool for, and something that I really, really like to use, is the way you can change your responses.

This is something that most people don't even know you can do with Gemini, but it's something that I use all the time. For example, I could say, "Can you create a story about this? " So, I just asked it to create a quick story.

I didn't give it much detail at all; I really didn't give it very basic prompts. One of the things that Gemini really excels at is creative writing, but that's not the tip or trick here. What you can do is, when you have only a creative output (which means that your output isn’t bound by things that are true or false), you can simply highlight the text, and then you can change it.

For example, this is a story about someone who created an AI YouTube channel to make AI news, and it went really well. We can read the story, and then we can change certain pieces of text because we want the story to be different. This is extremely useful because, rather than actually having to copy all of this text and then pasting it into Word or Google Docs and then changing it, we can do it directly here, which gives us a lot more control over where the story goes.

Then, for example, we can highlight literally anything, and then we can modify the selected text. We can modify it with a prompt; we can make it shorter, we can make it longer, we can completely remove it, or we can just regenerate it for more creativity. So, for example, I could say, "Change this name to the AI Grid," and then I'm going to just click enter, and it should modify that really quickly.

Then you can see right here it then changed to "the AI Grid. " Like that, and this is something that's really cool. So, I said right here, what I could also do is I could also make this longer.

So, it's now going to modify the response; it's going to make this a little bit longer, which is going to give me a decent amount of information. So, you can see it just opened up and got two paragraphs. The reason this is really, really good is because if I want to make longer pieces of text, I can make the intro shorter, I can remove it, I can change it; I can really just change everything about this.

Now, this doesn't work for certain things. Like, for example, if you're asking it information on Google, like if you're asking factual information, this doesn't work. This only works for creative stories; that's why a lot of people don't realize this, because they don't see this all the time.

Now, what you can also do as well is you can change the writing style. Now, this is different from this, but what you can do is you can also change the writing style. So, you can make it shorter.

This is completely overall; you can make it longer, you can make it simpler, you can make it more casual, and you can make it more professional. This is something that you can do, and it's really, really effective. You can do this in many different ways, but if you're trying to write something—if you're trying to write an email, you want it to be more professional, you want it to be more casual—this is something that's going to help you.

Now, a really underestimated thing about Gemini that I found that you can really do is decent research. So, I'm going to ask it, "Who is Demis Hassabis? " Okay, and Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, founded in 2014.

But what you can do that's really, really cool about this is that when you ask Gemini for information, a lot of people are worried about hallucinations. So, if you're worried about hallucinations—which are essentially just mistakes that AI systems tend to make—what you can do is double-check the response. So, you click this little G button right here, and then what it's going to do right now is evaluate the statements and validate them against search results.

So, with this, if you're trying to use this for research—maybe you're using it for your studies, maybe you're using it for, you know, I don't know, whatever it is you're using it for to write an essay—you can ask it something, and then if you're like, "I don't know if that's true," you can see where these sources are coming from. Then you can say, "Okay, this is good," rate this, check, and you can say, "This is helpful" or "not helpful. " You can see where this is coming from; this is from the UK's official website, and this is from Wikipedia, and this piece of information was from this other website.

I find that this is really good because when I'm trying to find sources about things that I want to verify, I can go on those websites and independently check whether or not the information is true or false. In addition, this is very useful for making sure that there are no hallucinations. Now, what you can also do about this is with any prompt, you can click this button right here called "Show Drfts," and you can check whether or not the other three drafts are going to be better or worse.

You can see that these drafts are kind of different in how they answer different things. This one talks about Career, Education, and Research; this one is just a paragraph; and this one is just a very simple CliffNotes version of who Demis is. So, whichever way you decide to do this, I think it's always important, if you are confused, to use the different drafts because it's actually allowing you to just explore different ways to get a response.

Now, one thing that you might actually notice, if you are in America and you're looking at this screen, you might realize this screen does look a little bit different. For example, there are different versions of Google Gemini based on where you are. So, one of the things I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn on my VPN, and I will leave a link to the VPN I use, and I'm going to show you how there are some small different abilities that you can do in Gemini if you are in other locations.

I'm just going to change my VPN to the USA, and then I'm going to show you guys what my screen is going to look like because I'm sure some of you from the USA are probably wondering why this looks just a little bit different if you haven't noticed already. So, now that I’ve switched over to a VPN, you can see—I’m not sure if it’s going to show my location—but currently it says that I’m in California, USA. Spoilers: I’m not.

But essentially, right here you can see that it’s unlocked one ability, which is the ability to generate images. I’m guessing it’s using Google’s Image In version 2. But you can see that this version is pretty, pretty impressive.

So, what we can do is we can click that generate a futuristic car driving through an old mountain road surrounded by nature. And this is something that you can’t actually do if you’re currently living in the EU or UK for whatever privacy reasons or region restrictions. You can use a VPN, and this is going to be.

. . Something that you're quickly able to do is see that it generates these images quite like DALL-E used to do, or quite like Midjourney, or whatever kind of, uh, you know, system you used to use.

These are the images that you can generate. I would find that when I'm generating these images, what you can also do if you don't like them is click "Generate More," and then you can see exactly how things are. What I've tended to realize about the responses from Gemini is that they are quite good for basic things.

So, for example, if I were to say, "Do a picture of a dog's birthday party," this is something that would be done a lot better than Futurist images. I'm not sure why it is; I'm guessing that maybe Google didn't train on those things, but for whatever reason, this seems to be a lot easier. These images you can see right here are a lot higher quality, and they just seem to be, um, a lot better in terms of coherence than these other images.

Because this one looks like photo-realistic, but if I just click off this image and then we compare it to this one, you can see that this one looks pretty good. I'm not going to lie, but compared to the photo realism of the other ones, it doesn't look as good. Like right here, I don't know what's going on with these wheels; it's a very strange-looking Bugatti.

But the point is, you can see right here my location: California, USA. This is something that you can do, and if you're wondering, "Why on Earth have I never been able to generate pictures before? "—this is what you can do in this version.

Now, another thing that you can use Google Gemini to do is actually use it for Google Docs. Okay, and this is something that a lot of people don't know because I'm not sure what Google did, but they kind of messed up when they put the link down. What Google did was put the link in a very obscure position, but I will put the link down in the description.

When you come to Google Docs, you likely won't see these unique features here. Essentially, what you can do is use this to write many different things. Okay, so if you don't have this when you go on to Google Docs—which most of you probably won't—what you want to do is click the link in the description for Workspace Labs, and then once you click that link, it should say, "Success!

You're in! " I'm guessing that you do need Gemini Advanced to have access to this. So, I would say, if you're on the advanced tab, click the link in the description, and then it's going to say, "Success!

You're in! " Then you're going to be able to use these features. Basically, what you can do is say, "Help me write.

" So I can say, "Help me write a video script about why AGI will change society," and then you can see I can literally click here to create. I find this a lot more effective than just writing in Gemini because it's natively a Word document. You can see right here this looks really cool, and it allows me these different buttons to refine my prompt.

You can see right here I can insert this, and then for example, there’s always going to be this button. I can highlight this, and then I can say here, "Elaborate on this. " So, for example, if I wanted to elaborate just to make this longer—and this is a conclusion, which is really nice—I can see it's doing its thing.

Then you can see right here it has all of this information, and I can literally just click "Insert. " So, this is how people are writing documents really, really quickly—just highlighting this bit, I'm going to click, uh, you know, I can add a different prompt. I can just highlight this, then I can click "Elaborate.

" I can shorten different things, and I find that this is really, really effective for writing those longer, more comprehensive documents that you really do want. I can click "Insert," and you can see in literally just around two minutes in Google Docs—rather than copy and pasting and moving to Word and whatever—this is something that is so, so effective that really does help me quite a lot in my day-to-day. Now, one of the last things you can do with Gemini is create code, and you can actually run the code in your browser.

You can see right here it says, "Give me an example of a dictionary comprehension in Python with examples. " So, I'm going to click that, and then you can see right here—remember, this is Gemini Advanced only—and then what you can see here that’s really, really cool, I really like this, is the fact that you can run these different versions of code to test if they work. Now, this is some pretty basic stuff, but you can always click the play button right here, and you can see what it’s able to return.

What’s also cool about this, what I really do like about Google Gemini, is that you're able to literally edit the code however you see fit because sometimes you want to be able to, you know, edit it for whatever, whatever you. . .

You want? I don't know if you know, but if you want to do that, you can literally just edit the code, and then you can literally just copy that and move it to a different platform. This is something that I use for very niche things, but it is something that I find really useful, as you can actually edit the code.

Sometimes it does make a mistake, and usually, if there are mistakes, you can literally just ask Gemini to once again revert that mistake and say, "Look, this is the mistake. Please fix this," and it will likely update that. Now, if this helped you out completely with Gemini Advanced, and if there was anything I missed, don't forget to leave a comment down below.

Hopefully, this did help you, as a lot of things were confusing before this.