A Quick Demo of Gemini's Decisions API

Yesterday, Google formally released their new Decisions API, and it's a pretty important new addition to Gemini in general, so I thought I'd share a quick introduction and demo to give you an idea of how it can be used. Of course, the first thing I need to do is explain what it is and why you should care. Decisions API? Generative AI has been able to answer questions since the beginning. Where the difficulty lies is in turning those answers into machine readable output. What do I mean by that? I can write code that takes a photo and asks my AI service what's in the photo. So for example - I pass this photo to Claude: I asked, "what's in this picture", and got: Cool. But what if I wanted to only know if there is a cat in the picture? If I make my prompt "just answer one question - is there a cat in this picture?" I get a nice "Yes" back. Again, cool. But doing this in code makes things a bit fuzzy. Like, what if my agent came back with "Yep" or "There is a cat"? Usually the way around…

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