Google co-founder Sergey Brin says in rare public appearance that company definitely messed up Gemini image launch
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a rare public appearance over the weekend, told a group of artificial intelligence enthusiasts that he came out of retirement "because the trajectory of AI is so exciting." Brin, 50, spoke to entrepreneurs on Saturday at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California, just south of San Francisco, where developers and founders were testing Googles Gemini model. Regarding the recent challenges with Gemini that led to flawed image results, Brin said the company isnt quite sure why responses have a leftward tilt, in the political sense. The company previously sent prepared statements from Prabhakar Raghavan, Googles head of search, and CEO Sundar Pichai in response to the controversial rollout. He cited OpenAIs ChatGPT and Elon Musks Grok services as AI tools that, “say some pretty weird things that are out there that definitely feel far left, for example.” Hallucinations, or false responses to a users prompt, are still “a big problem right now," he said.