Google CEO says Gemini image generation failures were 'unacceptable'

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company's recent issues with its AI-powered Gemini image generation tool after it started overcorrecting for diversity in historical images. He called the turn of events "unacceptable" and said that the company's "working around the clock" on a fix, according to an internal employee memo published by Semafor. "No AI is perfect, especially at this emerging stage of the industry's development, but we know the bar is high for us and we will keep at it for however long it takes," Pichai wrote to staffers. "And we'll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale." Pichai remains optimistic regarding the future of the Gemini chatbot, formerly called Bard, noting that the team has already "seen substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts." The image generation aspect of Gemini will remain paused until a fix is fully worked out.