{"id":24447,"date":"2024-03-04T01:44:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24447"},"modified":"2024-03-04T01:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:44:58","slug":"google-co-founder-admits-to-ai-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24447","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founder admits to AI failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sergey Brin has acknowledged that the tech giant \u201cmessed up\u201d in developing its Gemini artificial intelligence system<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google\u2019s Russian-born co-founder has responded to public backlash over the company\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d artificial intelligence product by saying the system was not adequately tested before being rolled out last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A clip posted on social media purports to show Sergey Brin<\/a>, still the largest individual shareholder at Google\u2019s parent company, speaking at the so-called \u201cGemini 1.5 Hackathon\u201d on Saturday in Hillsborough, California. Asked about the apparent political biases of Google\u2019s Gemini AI application, the billionaire quipped, \u201cI wasn\u2019t really expecting to talk about this today.\u201d He added, \u201cWe definitely messed up on the image generation, and I think it was mostly due to, just like, not thorough testing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brin\u2019s comments came amid public complaints not only over the app\u2019s racially skewed image responses \u2013 such as portraying Vikings, US founding fathers and Nazi soldiers as black or Asian, and refusing to show a picture of a white family \u2013 but also its bizarrely slanted answers to informational queries. For instance, the AI chatbot declined to condemn pedophilia and cautioned against labeling Antifa as \u201cviolent.\u201d It also balked at making a decisive judgment when asked whether singer Barbara Streisand or Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was \u201cworse for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Google CEO admitted in an internal email on Wednesday that the Gemini app was \u201cproblematic\u201d and had \u201cshown bias.\u201d He acknowledged biased text and image responses, which he called \u201ccompletely unacceptable,\u201d and said the company is \u201cworking around the clock to address these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tech giant suspended the chatbot\u2019s ability to generate images on February 22, citing \u201cinaccuracies\u201d in its depictions of historical figures and other people. Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, lost nearly $100 billion in market value within one week of the Gemini suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reaction to the clip from Saturday\u2019s \u201chackathon\u201d went beyond Brin\u2019s comments. Observers also focused on the odd attire worn by the man who asked about Gemini\u2019s problems. He\u2019s shown wearing a shirt with a full-body print of a woman\u2019s naked torso, including breasts. \u201cBrin is also wearing a rainbow shirt,\u201d one X (formerly Twitter) user said. \u201cGood luck with fixing Gemini.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sergey Brin has acknowledged that the tech giant \u201cmessed up\u201d in developing its Gemini artificial intelligence system Google\u2019s Russian-born co-founder has responded to public backlash over the company\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d artificial intelligence product by saying the system was not adequately tested before being rolled out last month. A clip posted on social media purports to show Sergey Brin, still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[26976,5224,26975,1269,2581],"class_list":["post-24447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-acknowledged","tag-ai","tag-co-founder-2","tag-failure","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24449,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions\/24449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}