WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:02.640 So we can chat with Ollama. 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:04.410 That's pretty straightforward. 3 00:00:04.410 --> 00:00:06.900 There are two important features about this chat, 4 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:08.460 which I wanna highlight here. 5 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:11.550 One is related to multi-line messages, 6 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:14.430 because right now, if I type something here, like Hi, 7 00:00:14.430 --> 00:00:17.490 and I then want to enter a new line to structure my input, 8 00:00:17.490 --> 00:00:21.690 for example, if I hit Enter, I just sent this as a message, 9 00:00:21.690 --> 00:00:24.690 which might not always be what I wanna do. 10 00:00:24.690 --> 00:00:26.640 So in order to send multi-line messages, 11 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.150 you can and should use triple double quotes. 12 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:32.280 Then if you hit Enter, you don't send a message, 13 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.110 but you enter a new line. 14 00:00:34.110 --> 00:00:37.215 So here I could now write a message like this, 15 00:00:37.215 --> 00:00:41.160 and you then end with triple double quotes again. 16 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:43.770 So opening and closing triple double quotes 17 00:00:43.770 --> 00:00:46.800 and in between, your multi-line message. 18 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:48.990 And this will then send the message. 19 00:00:48.990 --> 00:00:50.891 So that's one important thing. 20 00:00:50.891 --> 00:00:52.470 What's also important 21 00:00:52.470 --> 00:00:55.380 is that when dealing with a vision model, 22 00:00:55.380 --> 00:00:57.510 which Gemma3 is, 23 00:00:57.510 --> 00:01:00.930 you can, of course, not just use it to handle text input, 24 00:01:00.930 --> 00:01:02.820 but also image input. 25 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:06.150 Gemma3 models and a couple of other models as well 26 00:01:06.150 --> 00:01:09.840 are able to extract information from images. 27 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:10.740 Now, you can, of course, 28 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:14.340 use Ollama programmatically to send images to it, 29 00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:17.310 and that is something we'll explore later in this section, 30 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:20.880 but you can also use an image here in the chat. 31 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:21.713 And to do that, 32 00:01:21.713 --> 00:01:24.210 all you have to do is type your prompt 33 00:01:24.210 --> 00:01:26.193 like what's on this image, 34 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.610 and then separate it with a space, 35 00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:32.580 you provide a path to that image. 36 00:01:32.580 --> 00:01:35.010 In my case, it's a image called max.jpg, 37 00:01:35.010 --> 00:01:38.160 which sits in the same folder as I'm currently in. 38 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:40.170 So I provide a relative path 39 00:01:40.170 --> 00:01:43.170 to that image, starting with ./. 40 00:01:43.170 --> 00:01:45.300 You could also have an absolute path here 41 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.400 to the image that might be stored somewhere else 42 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:48.840 on your system. 43 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.250 And now, if I sent this, 44 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:53.160 Ollama detects that I added an image to the prompt. 45 00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:54.930 And for it to detect that, 46 00:01:54.930 --> 00:01:58.950 your image path must come last after your prompt. 47 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:00.513 The order is important. 48 00:02:01.470 --> 00:02:04.770 And it now sent this image, along with my prompt to Ollama. 49 00:02:04.770 --> 00:02:07.890 And therefore, here, I get a nice output 50 00:02:07.890 --> 00:02:09.450 describing what's on the image, 51 00:02:09.450 --> 00:02:12.930 that it's a man in a recording setup 52 00:02:12.930 --> 00:02:16.410 and that there is a thumbs-up gesture. 53 00:02:16.410 --> 00:02:17.550 And that is correct 54 00:02:17.550 --> 00:02:20.970 because this here is the image I sent to Ollama. 55 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:22.893 It's this max.jpg file. 56 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:27.660 So if you are working with a multimodal model 57 00:02:27.660 --> 00:02:29.040 like the Gemma3 model, 58 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:32.640 which is not just capable of handling text, but also images, 59 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:34.260 you can send both to it. 60 00:02:34.260 --> 00:02:36.633 It's just the order that's important.