Google boss Sundar Pichai breaks silence on Gemini’s AI errors – ‘We got it wrong’

Google halted Gemini’s image generation feature last week following reports of inaccurate depiction of races of several key figures. (Reuters photo)

Amid the intense backlash over the erroneous AI image generation tool, Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally broke his silence on the issue. In a memo to the employees, the search giant boss said that the responses generated by the AI tool were simply unacceptable. ” We got it wrong,” Pichai said in the memo, which was first reported by ‘Semafor’.

In the internal memo published by ‘The Verge’, Pichai spoke about the challenges of the AI industry and the expectations from Google. “No Al 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. And we’ll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale,” Pichai said in the first official communication on the issue.

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Without giving any clear timeline on when the issue of faulty response will be fixed, Pichai said that “We’ll be driving a clear set of actions, including structural changes, updated product guidelines, improved launch processes, robust evals and red-teaming, and technical recommendations. We are looking across all of this and will make the necessary changes.”

Google’s Gemini AI tool (formerly known as Bard) has been under fire globally for its inaccurate text and pictorial responses. From wrong historical depiction in AI pics to text, users have been venting against the alleged bias.

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Google halted Gemini’s image generation feature last week following widespread discovery that the model produced racially diverse representations, including Nazi-era German soldiers, US Founding Fathers of non-white backgrounds, and inaccurately depicted races of Google’s co-founders.