Google to relaunch Gemini AI image tool

Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, has revealed planss to reintroduce the Gemini AI tool, responsible for generating images of individuals.

The decision follows a temporary pause initiated last week due to inaccuracies found in certain historical depictions.

Alphabet’s Google recently introduced image generation via its Gemini AI models this month. Nonetheless, a subset of users raised concerns on social media, noting instances of historical image inaccuracies produced by the technology.

“We have taken the feature offline while we fix that. We are hoping to have that back online very shortly in the next couple of weeks, few weeks”, Hassabis said in a panel in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The tool was not “working the way we intended”, he added.

Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, Google has been racing to produce AI software to rival that of the Microsoft-backed company.

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When Google released its generative AI chatbot Bard a year ago, it had shared inaccurate information about pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system in a promotional video, causing its shares to drop by as much as 9%.

Bard underwent a renaming to Gemini earlier this month, coinciding with Google’s introduction of paid subscription plans which offer users enhanced reasoning capabilities from the AI model, providing a tailored choice for individual preferences.

“We are in the early stages of generative AI development but if the glitches or inaccuracies persist, that’s when people start to worry,” said Bob O’Donnell, chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research.