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☆ Google Gemini product lead retreats from social media after troubled AI product launch led to harassment
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Jack Krawczyk, a Google artificial intelligence product lead, has pulled away from social media sites, including X and LinkedIn, after the troubled launch of the company's AI image generator made him the target of online harassment. Krawczyk, who is typically active on social media, where he's known to solicit user feedback and to praise Google products and colleagues, removed identifying information and made some accounts private. Krawczyk's official title is senior director of product management for Gemini, the company’s main group of AI models. Krawczyk has since removed images of himself as well as any identifying information from social media platforms. WATCH: Google vs. Google

Persons: Jack Krawczyk, Krawczyk, Sundar Pichai, Critics, Elon Musk Organizations: X, Gemini, Google

☆ Elon Musk is going to war with Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk has been heavily criticising Google over the past week. Since the launch of Google's Gemini image generator, he's shared and replied to more than 100 posts about the company. Sharing a screenshot of one of Krawczyk's posts, Musk wrote : "This nut is a big part of why Google's AI is so racist & sexist." To give Musk some credit, Google's AI also appeared to be hard on him personally. After taking a similar issue with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Musk founded his own AI company and released Grok, a competing chatbot.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon, he's, Demis Hassabis, Musk, Jack Krawczyk, Gemini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Grok, OpenAI's, ChatGPT's Organizations: Google, Service, Big Tech, Gmail, Republicans, Krawczyk, BI, V1.5

☆ Elon Musk is accusing Google of running 'insane racist, anti-civilizational programming' with its AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

That night, Musk wrote multiple posts on X slamming Google. "I'm glad that Google overplayed their hand with their AI image generation, as it made their insane racist, anti-civilizational programming clear to all," Musk wrote in one of the posts. "This nut is a big part of why Google's AI is so racist & sexist," Musk wrote on X on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/NC9nIi2GcV — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2024BI ran two separate searches on Google with the same keywords Musk used. Representatives for Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Elon, Musk, Gemini, that's, Jack Krawczyk, Krawczyk, I’m, NC9nIi2GcV — Elon, Sam Altman's OpenAI, Grok Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Business Insider, BI

☆ Google halts AI tool’s ability to produce images of people after backlash over historically inaccurate depictions of race
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The embarrassing blunder shows how AI tools still struggle with the concept of race. Google’s attempt to overcome this, however, appears to have backfired and made it difficult for the AI chatbot to generate images of White people. Gemini, like other AI tools such as ChatGPT, is trained on vast troves of online data. Experts have long warned that AI tools therefore have the potential to replicate the racial and gender biases baked into that information. This screen grab shows CNN asking Google Gemini to create an AI-generated image of a "White farmer in the South" and the tool's response.

Persons: OpenAI’s Dall, Gemini, Clare Duffy, ”, “, Jack Krawczyk, Bard, James Webb Organizations: New, New York CNN, Google, CNN, White, Tech, Gemini, James Webb Space Telescope Locations: New York, White, Dublin ”

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. Among the opportunities is the company's plan to liven its timer-setting, command-fulfilling Google Assistant with Bard's human-directed suggestions. Connecting these products, first via mobile devices in the coming months, will introduce AI to more people, said Krawczyk. Google Search traffic fell 0.4%, the analysts' note said. The surge reminded Krawczyk of what Google Search faced upon news of pop star Michael Jackson's death in 2009, he said.

Persons: Paresh Dave, Bard, Jack Krawczyk, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Krawczyk, Michael Jackson's, Jeffrey Dastin, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters NEXT, Google, YouTube, Bank of America, Gmail, Thomson Locations: Mountain View , California, U.S, New York, ChatGPT

As it seeks to gain ground in the fast-moving AI space, Google is rolling out Bard Extensions, enabling users to import their data from other Google products. For instance, users could ask Bard to search their files in Google Drive or provide a summary of the user’s Gmail inbox. For now, Bard users will only be able to pull information in from Google apps, but Google is working with external companies to connect their applications into Bard in the future, Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk said. Another new feature in Bard seeks to alleviate a nagging problem for generative AI: inaccurate responses known as “hallucinations”. Bard users will be able to see which parts of Bard’s answers differ from and agree with Google search results.

Persons: Bard, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Jack Krawczyk, it's, ” Krawczyk, Anna Tong, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Gmail, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O) said it is rolling out its artificial- intelligence chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil on Thursday, the product's biggest expansion since its February launch and pitting it against Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed rival ChatGPT. Bard and ChatGPT are human-sounding programs that use generative artificial intelligence to hold conversations with users and answer myriad prompts. Earlier this week, billionaire Elon Musk also launched his long-teased artificial-intelligence startup xAI, whose team includes several former engineers at Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. Krawczyk said Google had since then met the watchdogs to reassure them on issues relating to transparency, choice and control. In a briefing with journalists, Amar Subramanya, engineering vice president of Bard, added that users could opt out of their data being collected.

Persons: Bard, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Jack Krawczyk, Krawczyk, Amar Subramanya, Subramanya, Foo Yun Chee, Isabel Woodford, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Thomson Locations: BRUSSELS, Europe, Brazil, U.S, Brussels, Mexico

☆ Google launches its Bard chatbot in Europe with a heap of new features as the AI arms race heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google is making Bard available in Europe, Brazil, and other new territories. Bard is competing with a raft of other chatbots flooding the market, including OpenAI's ChatGPT. Google has announced its Bard AI chatbot is now available in more countries and territories, including Europe and Brazil. The latest expansion makes Bard available in "most of the world" and in the most widely spoken languages, the company said. For example, Bard can now read its responses aloud, a feature that the company said is supported in 40 languages.

Persons: Bard, OpenAI's, chatbot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Jack Krawczyk, Amarnag Subramanya, it's, Claude Organizations: Google, Morning Locations: Europe, Brazil

☆ Google begins opening access to its ChatGPT competitor Bard
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Jeffrey Dastin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Starting in the U.S. and UK, consumers can join a waiting list for English-language access to Bard, a program previously open to approved testers only. Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content. Asked whether competitive dynamics were behind Bard's rollout, Jack Krawczyk, a senior product director, said Google was focused on users. Unlike ChatGPT, Bard is not proficient in generating computer code, Google said on its website. "Bard will not always get it right," a Google pop-up notice warned during the demo.

☆ Google execs tell employees in testy all-hands meeting that Bard A.I. isn't just about search
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

In the lead up to the Bard announcement, Google executives repeatedly said the technology it was developing internally would integrate with search. “We’re working to bring these latest AI advancements into our products, starting with Search,” the company said in a blog post. That same week, at an event in Paris, Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan unveiled some fresh examples of using Bard within search. "You see the stories of ChatGPT coincides with an event that we’re having that was actually focused on search," Krawczyk said. Specifically, the question asked why Google lost so many key people who were listed on a paper about much of the AI technology behind Bard.

☆ Google asked employees to train Bard to produce high-quality answers. AI researchers explain how Google can do that.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI experts told Insider how Googlers might write the high-quality responses for Bard to improve its model. Then they were asked to evaluate Bard's answers to ensure they were what one would expect and of a reasonable length and structure. If an answer was too humanlike, factually wrong, or otherwise didn't make sense, employees could rewrite the answer and submit it to help train Bard's model. To refine Bard, Google could implement a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning, Vered Shwartz, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, said. That model would look at answers Bard produced, rejecting the bad ones and validating the good ones until the chatbot understood how it should behave.

☆ Google is warning its employees not to help its Bard AI chatbot trick users into thinking it's human
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When Bard provides a response that is considered bad, employees can "fix" the response by rewriting it. In the "Do's" section, it told employees that Bard's responses should be in the first-person, maintaining an "unopinionated, neutral tone." 5 steps for teaching Bard Step 1: Pick a use case Step 2: Try out a prompt Enter a prompt. Step 3: Evaluate Bard's response Check Bard's response and give it a thumbs up or down - Did it follow instructions as you expected - Was the response factually correct? Make sure you refer to recommended formatting for different types of responses Step 5: Submit and confirm Before submitting.

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