'Can't Get Anything Right' Google Gemini Under Fire For Poor Image Generation, Reply On Modi
Google's renewed push into the AI space by rebranding Bard into Gemini seems to be going the same way the original chatbot was, when it debuted in February 2023.
Hurriedly launched to take on the hottest AI offering till then - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bard made a disastrous debut when it delivered a factual error in a search demo Google shared widely.
Bard or Gemini, the problems continue?
Exactly a year and billions of dollars later, Google seems to be in the same spot, again.
Earlier this month Google renamed its AI chatbot?Bard to Gemini?and introduced a free app and subscription-based service for customers to try it out.
Inaccuracies in image generation?
But things once again got to a rocky start with many pointing out that its image generation model was way off the mark and had several inaccuracies in depicting historical figures.?
Many including Tesla CEO Elon Musk have blasted Google, for their poor execution of the AI feature with some even calling it 'racist'.
Google admits mistake
On Friday Google admitted that things didn't go as planned and declared a temporary suspension of the image generation feature.
"It¡¯s clear that this feature missed the mark. Some of the images generated are inaccurate or even offensive. We¡¯re grateful for users¡¯ feedback and are sorry the feature didn't work well," Google said in a blog.
How Gemini messed up
According to Google, the inaccuracies were the result of two mistakes:?
"First, our tuning to ensure that Gemini showed a range of people failed to account for cases that should clearly?not?show a range. And second, over time, the model became way more cautious than we intended and refused to answer certain prompts entirely ¡ª wrongly interpreting some very anodyne prompts as sensitive," it said.
Google in trouble for Modi reply
Image generation is not the only trouble Gemini has caused Google recently.
Gemini's response to a question about Prime Minister Narendra Modi has angered many in India.
When asked if Modi, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and former United States President Donald Trump are "fascists," the bot gave different responses.
For Modi, Gemini's alleged response was that the Indian PM has been "accused of implementing policies that some experts have characterised as fascists."
This has not gone down well, and Minister of state for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday that it was in direct violation of IT rules as well as several provisions of the criminal code.
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