AI and You: Google’s Gemini Embarrassing Images, VCs and AI’s Magical ‘Abundance’

Competition among companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Perplexity to win over users has led these makers of generative AI chatbots to push the boundaries of what their systems can do and rush updates and new versions to market. But the current state of Google’s Gemini (formerly Bard) reminds us that gen AI is a work in progress and that developers should take a pause and do the proper quality assurance testing before releasing things to the public. As for Gemini, Google’s large language model has been delivering results that are so off the rails that last week…