Generative AI Boom

Google recently launched their new AI model called Gemini, which they claim is their most advanced and capable AI yet. This launch poses fresh competition for OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot and suggests the current AI boom is just getting started.

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Gemini is what Google calls a "natively multimodal" model, meaning it can learn from data beyond just text, also incorporating audio, video, and images. While ChatGPT shows how much AI can learn from large amounts of text, there's only so much these models can understand about the physical world from text alone.

Google says Gemini moves past the limitations of language models like ChatGPT and GPT-4, which can hallucinate information, reason poorly, and have weird security flaws. By training on more than just text, Gemini introduces new capabilities that could significantly advance AI compared to today's chatbots.

This aligns with hints from OpenAI that they are also working on more radical AI approaches beyond simply scaling up GPT-4. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested the field needs new big ideas to make major progress. Google's Gemini launch seems to demonstrate such an approach.

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The key message from Gemini is that both Google and OpenAI recognize the limits of today's AI chatbots and are aggressively pursuing more advanced technology. While ChatGPT has captured headlines over the past year, it appears to just be the starting point for much more powerful generative AI. With tech giants like Google and OpenAI competing to find breakthroughs, we are likely still only in the early days of the current AI boom.