CEO Sundar Pichai of Google sent a memo to staff on Tuesday informing them that the company is trying to address issues with its Gemini AI tool. The note stated that certain text and image responses produced by the model were “biased” and “fully unacceptable.”
The company had stopped using its program, which generates images of persons based on errors in some historical representations it has created, last week.
Pichai informed staff members that the tool’s responses had demonstrated prejudice and offended some users.
“Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We’re already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts… And we’ll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale,” he said.
The company now plans to relaunch Gemini AI in the next few weeks. News website Semafor first reported the news, which was later confirmed by a Google spokesperson.
Since the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI‘s ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet-owned Google has been racing to create a rival AI software.
It released the generative AI chatbot Bard a year ago. Earlier this month Google renamed it Gemini and rolled out paid subscription plans, which users could choose for better reasoning capabilities from the AI model.
