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Google and Alphabet announced this week that their new artificial intelligence (AI) model named Gemini will be the “most capable and general model yet, with state-of-the-art performance across many leading benchmarks.”
This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on the company’s website.
“Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including our colleagues at Google Research,” wrote Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind. “It was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video.”
Gemini 1.0 will have three different sizes: (1) Gemini Ultra — the largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, (2) Gemini Pro — the best model for scaling across a wide range of tasks, and (3) Gemini Nano — the most efficient model for on-device tasks.
Hassabis says Gemini will be capable of more complex reasoning and understanding of information than previous technology.
“Gemini Ultra’s performance exceeds current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely-used academic benchmarks used in large language model (LLM) research and development,” he wrote.
“With a score of 90.0%, Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding), which uses a combination of 57 subjects such as math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics for testing both world knowledge and problem-solving abilities.”
Don’t worry though if AI being that smart scares you. Google is doing all of this with the utmost care and responsibility.
“Building upon Google’s AI Principles and the robust safety policies across our products, we’re adding new protections to account for Gemini’s multimodal capabilities,” Hassabis stated. “At each stage of development, we’re considering potential risks and working to test and mitigate them.”
Hopefully that is true, because he also revealed that Gemini 1.0 is now being rolled out “to billions of people through Google products” like Bard, Pixel, Gboard, Search, Ads, Chrome and Duet AI.