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GOOGLE GEMINI: IS THIS THE NEXT BIG THING IN AI?


GEMINI IS AN AI MODEL TRAINED TO BEHAVE IN HUMAN-LIKE WAYS THAT MIGHT INTENSIFY
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY’S POTENTIAL PROMISE AND PERILS.

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With Gemini providing a helping hand, Google promises its AI-powered chatbot
Bard will become more intuitive and better at tasks that involve planning. |
Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence on December 6 with the
launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that
is likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and
perils.



The rollout will unfold in phases, with less sophisticated versions of Gemini
called “Nano” and “Pro” being immediately incorporated into Google’s
AI-powered chatbot Bard and its Pixel 8 Pro smartphone.

With Gemini providing a helping hand, Google promises Bard will become more
intuitive and better at tasks that involve planning. On the Pixel 8 Pro, Gemini
will be able to quickly summarise recordings made on the device and provide
automatic replies on messaging services, starting with WhatsApp, according to
Google.


‘BARD ADVANCED’ IN EARLY 2024

Gemini’s biggest advances will not come until early 2024 when its Ultra model
will be used to launch “Bard Advanced”, a juiced-up version of the chatbot that
initially will only be offered to a test audience.



The AI, at first, will only work in English throughout the world, although
Google executives assured reporters during a briefing that the technology will
have no problem eventually diversifying into other languages.

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competition

Based on a demonstration of Gemini for a group of reporters, Google’s “Bard
Advanced” might be capable of unprecedented AI multitasking by simultaneously
recognising and understanding presentations involving text, photos, and video.

Gemini will also eventually be infused into Google’s dominant search engine,
although the timing of that transition has not been spelled out yet.

“This is a significant milestone in the development of AI, and the start of a
new era for us at Google,” declared Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the
AI division behind Gemini. Google prevailed over other bidders, including
Facebook parent Meta, to acquire London-based DeepMind nearly a decade ago, and
since melded it with its “Brain” division to focus on Gemini’s development.


TRIGGERING A DEBATE

The technology’s problem-solving skills are being touted by Google as being
especially adept in math and physics, fuelling hopes among AI optimists that it
may lead to scientific breakthroughs that improve life for humans.

But an opposing side of the AI debate worries about the technology eventually
eclipsing human intelligence, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs and
perhaps even more destructive behaviour, such as amplifying misinformation or
triggering the deployment of nuclear weapons.

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Narayanan

“We’re approaching this work boldly and responsibly,” Google CEO Sundar
Pichai wrote in a blog post. “That means being ambitious in our research and
pursuing the capabilities that will bring enormous benefits to people and
society, while building in safeguards and working collaboratively with
governments and experts to address risks as AI becomes more capable.”

Gemini’s arrival is likely to up the ante in an AI competition that has been
escalating for the past year, with San Francisco startup OpenAI and long-time
industry rival Microsoft.


GEMINI TO TAKE ON OPENAI’S GPT-4

Backed by Microsoft’s financial muscle and computing power, OpenAI was already
deep into developing its most advanced AI model, GPT-4, when it released the
free ChatGPT tool late last year. That AI-fuelled chatbot rocketed to global
fame, bringing buzz to the commercial promise of generative AI and pressuring
Google to push out Bard in response.

Just as Bard was arriving on the scene, OpenAI released GPT-4 in March 2023 and
has since been building in new capabilities aimed at consumers and business
customers, including a feature unveiled in November that enables the chatbot to
analyse images. It has been competing for business against other rival AI
startups such as Anthropic and even its partner, Microsoft, which has exclusive
rights to OpenAI’s technology in exchange for the billions of dollars that it
has poured into the startup.

The alliance so far has been a boon for Microsoft, which has seen its market
value climb by more than 50 per cent so far in 2023, primarily because of
investors’ belief that AI will turn into a gold mine for the tech industry.
Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet, also has been riding the same wave with its
market value rising more than $500 billion, or about 45 per cent, so far this
year. Despite the anticipation surrounding Gemini in recent months, Alphabet’s
stock edged down slightly in trading on December 6.

Microsoft’s deepening involvement in OpenAI during the past year, coupled with
OpenAI’s more aggressive attempts to commercialise its products, has raised
concerns that the non-profit has strayed from its original mission to protect
humanity as the technology progresses.

Those worries were magnified in November 2023 when OpenAI’s board abruptly
fired CEO Sam Altman in a dispute revolving around undisclosed issues of trust.
After backlash that threatened to destroy the company and result in a mass
exodus of AI engineering talent to Microsoft, OpenAI brought Altman back as
CEO and reshuffled its board.

Also Read | Sam Altman: Back at OpenAI, but questions on initial firing and
future of AI persist

With Gemini coming out, OpenAI may find itself trying to prove its technology
remains smarter than Google’s. “I am in awe of what it’s capable of,” Google
DeepMind vice president of product Eli Collins said of Gemini.

In a virtual press conference, Google declined to share Gemini’s parameter
count—one but not the only measure of a model’s complexity. A white
paper released on December 6 outlined the most capable version of Gemini
outperforming GPT-4 on multiple-choice exams, grade-school math, and other
benchmarks, but acknowledged ongoing struggles in getting AI models to achieve
higher-level reasoning skills.

Some computer scientists see limits in how much can be done with large language
models, which work by repeatedly predicting the next word in a sentence and are
prone to making up errors known as hallucinations. “We made a ton of progress in
what’s called factuality with Gemini. So Gemini is our best model in that
regard. But it’s still, I would say, an unsolved research problem,” Collins
said.



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