The world of AI has just reached another important milestone in its evolution. Google Deepmind has just transformed the landscape by announcing Gemini, its new artificial intelligence model.
By relaunching competition, particularly against OpenAI’s GPT-4, Deepmind is regaining leadership in a field where it was a pioneer. No one can forget their research into loss functions, vanishing gradients, and other mathematical advances that led to GPT-2, GPT-3, and GPT-4.
Gemini is a broad, multimodal language model, capable of handling and integrating multiple types of input such as text, images, audio, and video. It is available in three variants: Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro and Gemini Nano, each optimized for different levels of complexity and resource availability. The model showed impressive results, outperforming other leading AI models. Which qualifies it to be a major advancement in AI technology.
The nature of this industry is very unpredictable. A few months ago, at the start of 2023, many people were already classifying Google Deepmind among those left behind, building a scotoma on the intellectual and financial resources at their disposal.
This is why the rise of Google should not be seen as an isolated event. Other tech giants like Meta and Nvidia for example, with their financial resources, computing capacity and expertise, could also make significant progress.
Hopefully, in this race, companies will continue to take security issues, humanitarian concerns and their legal responsibilities seriously and not prioritize speed over safety, ethical considerations and thorough research.
One can’t help but wonder: what implications will this and future advancements like Gemini have on our individual and collective lives? What are your thoughts? Please share your insights and predictions in the comments below.
