It's a neat article, but Function Calling is absolutely broken with the current release (1.51.0 of the Python API, and Gemini Pro 1.5 and Gemini 1.0 for that matter).You can't combine with function calls with natural generation due to this bug. The d...

This (along with these bugs) is still a pretty serious deficiency preventing me from creating a workable product with Gemini with respect to function calling and tools.Pretty surprising how utterly broken it is.

Same here, opened a ticket: https://github.com/googleapis/python-aiplatform/issues/3775

This appears to still be the case. When I include Tools in my GenerativeModel.generate_content request, Gemini can no longer answer generalized queries about anything.Doing a simple test in Python with the latest API reveals: I can't answer that ques...