Google is giving users the chance to create AI images of others through its Gemini AI tool. It’s a major rollout, considering how the company pulled out Imagen 3 a couple of months back.
Gemini’s senior product director confirmed the news through a new blog post where he shared that early access to the latest Imagen 3 generator will soon be up to grabs for advanced users. The same would be the case for those with Business and Enterprise, beginning in the next few days.
The company has included some serious tech advancements to this product and also enhanced evaluation sets while clearing product misconceptions. So you can see this as a red teaming effort.
The Android maker was left with no choice but to halt the feature where AI images of others could be generated. Some users reported serious inaccuracies and made calls for immediate changes.
When one user requested a picture of a German soldier from 1943, what he got was far from what he expected. The results featured racially diverse images that were far from the actual ones.
Google confirmed that the latest image generator does not show support for real people, minors, or those about controversial themes. Furthermore, the company admits that nothing is perfect and therefore that must be taken into consideration when using Gemini too.
Moving on to Gems, the company promised a customized version of Gemini this year in May at the I/O conference. The rollout was marketed as a way for the tool to remember specifics or detailed instructions.
The main advantage is saying hello to subject-specific results that save users a lot of time on difficult tasks. All you need to do is add some instructions and see the tool rewrite that into something more structured. It will feature goals, rules, and behaviors such as the tone and any other customization.
Gemini also hopes to give users some premade offerings like a learning coach, brainstormer, writing editor, coding expert, and career guide. Gems is also launching in the next few days to all advanced users so stay tuned.
Both offerings are sure to take Gemini far above what many had anticipated about the AI tool’s capabilities. Google is clearly sticking to its promises if things go as planned.
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