Google AI image tool back 'shortly'

A few weeks? Ummm… what?! This raises many critical questions. If a few weeks is all it takes to fix this, then there is a lot more human intelligence controlling the outputs of this AI than we may have imagined, and those outputs are perhaps infinitely more Explainable than advertised. It’s hard not to consider that the current state is exactly how Google intended the product to work. If you are worried about the jeopardies of unchecked AI development, including the ways that AI can reinforce the consolidation of power… There is much more to say about this. #ChangeHappensEverywhere #googlegemini #ai #llms #explainableai CNBC https://lnkd.in/g4YkNp_h

It's insane to see Google asleep at the wheel when it comes to AI. I've taken time to use most major AI platforms, from ChatGPT, Gemini (who the hell thought 'Bard' was a good name?), Perplexity, Claude etc. OpenAI isn't perfect, but it's miles ahead. Gemini from Google is always bragging about its performance metrics, but after signing up to their enterprise tool, it's a shoddy product in a shiny wrapper. We're taught to believe big companies with 150,000+ employees are untouchable, but everyone is just one step away from playing catch up to a much lighter and leaner competitor. Somewhere right now, a teenager is tinkering away in their bedroom and figuring out a problem that will one day, give OpenAI a run for their money. It's the most exciting part about working in tech, it really doesn't give a damn about anyone's accomplishments.

It's striking that in the coverage of Google's recent Gemini upgrade, there's a complete omission of DeepMind's involvement. Initially, Bard was Google's internal LLM(not Deepmind's), while DeepMind was developing Gemini in tandem. The latter was incorporated into Bard towards the end of last year(still under the Bard name), followed by the update last week which was DeepMind/Gemini's supposed GPT4-competitor. Yet, amidst the wave of criticism, all fingers point solely at Google, leaving DeepMind's contribution unacknowledged. Google wanted to take the credit, and now they are dealing with the blowback.

To all my Google friends: I know this week has been tough with a lot of criticism about Gemini's gaffes. Just wanted to say I love all of you and am rooting for you. I know everyone means well, and am grateful for your work & eager to see where you next take this amazing tech!

To all my Google friends: I know this week has been tough with a lot of criticism about Gemini's gaffes. Just wanted to say I love all of you and am rooting for you. I know everyone means well, and am grateful for your work & eager to see where you next take this amazing tech!

To all my Google friends: I know this week has been tough with a lot of criticism about Gemini's gaffes. Just wanted to say I love all of you and am rooting for you. I know everyone means well, and am grateful for your work & eager to see where you next take this amazing tech!

Given the hooplah about #Gemini messing up #historicalimagery, I find myself wondering why it's such a big thing with just Gemini. It's not the only one to make the mistake. Asking of #dalle3, "Give me an image of human that would have been living in the US pacific north west in 300BC, fishing, as they would have been at that time. Medium shot on the person, the person should be looking towards frame. Photoreal. Wide." Gives me a bunch of white dudes. I then asked it who would be living in the PNW in 300BC, and it correctly identified that these should be indigenous. So I asked it to redo an image with an indigenous person, and I got image #3, another white dude. It's all well and good to hold #google to account, but it strikes me that it might be best to see to that the whole industry is asked to figure out these things. It's all well and good to go #scrape the internet for everything humanity has uploaded, but it really will take more than just #preprompts to fix. Though I have to say, #midjourney (fourth image) feels closer with the same prompt, all of the images it offered me were appropriate to the period - though I'm not sure if the facial structures/garb are appropriate to the PNW groups. It at least understood not to show me a modern mountain man. #AI #generativeai