Google officially apologized on Friday for embarrassing and inaccurate images generated by its new Gemini AI tool. The apology comes after users highlighted problems with Gemini producing ahistorical and racially diverse images for specific prompts about groups like Nazi soldiers and U.S. Founding Fathers. In a blog post, Google’s senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan said some of the images were “inaccurate or even offensive,” acknowledging that the company had “missed the mark.” Raghavan explained Google had sought to avoid bias by ensuring the AI produced a diverse range of people for...…Google officially apologized on Friday for embarrassing and inaccurate images generated by its new Gemini AI tool. The apology comes after users highlighted problems with Gemini producing ahistorical and racially diverse images for specific prompts about groups like Nazi soldiers and U.S. Founding Fathers. In a blog post, Google’s senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan said some of the images were “inaccurate or even offensive,” acknowledging that the company had “missed the mark.” Raghavan explained Google had sought to avoid bias by ensuring the AI produced a diverse range of people for...WW…

Google has made a mess of its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, leaving many consumers baffled by the barrage of new names, products and features released in recent weeks. The company’s chaotic approach threatens to undermine public trust in AI, and perhaps more importantly, Google itself. In the past few weeks alone, Google has unveiled a dizzying succession of AI offerings — Bard, Gemini, Gemini Advanced, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini for Workspace, Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise. The rapid-fire rebranding and product launches have spawned mocking internal memes from Google...…Google has made a mess of its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, leaving many consumers baffled by the barrage of new names, products and features released in recent weeks. The company’s chaotic approach threatens to undermine public trust in AI, and perhaps more importantly, Google itself. In the past few weeks alone, Google has unveiled a dizzying succession of AI offerings — Bard, Gemini, Gemini Advanced, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini for Workspace, Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise. The rapid-fire rebranding and product launches have spawned mocking internal memes from Google...WW…

Alembic, a startup that applies pandemic-era contact tracing mathematics to marketing attribution, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg’s firm WndrCo.  The round comes amid growing demand from Fortune 500 chief marketing officers for AI-powered tools to measure return on investment from massive marketing budgets increasingly spread across digital channels. “We continually ask Fortune 500 CMOs about their top challenges. The most common response is around proving the effectiveness of marketing spend,” WndrCo partner Justin...…Alembic, a startup that applies pandemic-era contact tracing mathematics to marketing attribution, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg’s firm WndrCo.  The round comes amid growing demand from Fortune 500 chief marketing officers for AI-powered tools to measure return on investment from massive marketing budgets increasingly spread across digital channels. “We continually ask Fortune 500 CMOs about their top challenges. The most common response is around proving the effectiveness of marketing spend,” WndrCo partner Justin...WW…

OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides “at most a mild uplift” in biological threat creation accuracy, compared to the baseline of existing resources on the internet. The study is part of OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, which aims to assess and mitigate the potential risks of advanced AI capabilities, especially those that could pose “frontier risks” —...…OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides “at most a mild uplift” in biological threat creation accuracy, compared to the baseline of existing resources on the internet. The study is part of OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, which aims to assess and mitigate the potential risks of advanced AI capabilities, especially those that could pose “frontier risks” —...WW…