In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), competition often sparks innovation. The latest entrant in the race to develop advanced large language models is DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab renowned for its groundbreaking work in AI. According to a recent piece in Wired, DeepMind is developing a chatbot called Gemini, which aims to rival, or even surpass, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Gemini is not just another chatbot. DeepMind is leveraging techniques from AlphaGo, its AI system that made headlines as the first to defeat a professional human player at the board game Go. The goal? To create a chatbot that can not only analyze text but also plan and solve problems.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Wired, “At a high level you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models. We also have some new innovations that are going to be pretty interesting.”
One of the key techniques that Gemini is expected to leverage is reinforcement learning. This involves “rewarding” an AI system for certain behaviors and/or punishing undesired ones, with the goal of “teaching” the system which behaviors to exhibit in a given situation. Reinforcement learning has already led to significant advancements in the language model space, and DeepMind, with its wealth of experience in this area, is eager to apply its learnings to the generative AI domain.
Gemini is not DeepMind’s first venture into language models. Last year, the company introduced Sparrow, a chatbot designed to provide safer and more appropriate responses to questions. However, Gemini is DeepMind’s most ambitious project in this space so far, with direct participation from Google higher-ups, including Jeff Dean, the company’s most senior AI research executive.
The development of Gemini comes at a time when investor and customer enthusiasm for generative AI is at an all-time high. According to Grand View Research, the market for generative AI, including text-analyzing AI like Gemini, could reach $109.37 billion by 2030.
At Neural River, we are excited about the potential of Gemini and how it will shape the future of AI. As a company dedicated to building easy-to-use AI products for businesses and nurturing fresh talent in the AI industry, we believe that the development of models like Gemini represents a significant step forward in AI research and development.
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