Source: Guardian
Google has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that it claims outperforms ChatGPT in most tests and displays “advanced reasoning” across multiple formats, including an ability to view and mark a student’s physics homework.
Google said Ultra outperformed “state-of-the-art” AI models including ChatGPT’s most powerful model, GPT-4, on 30 out of 32 benchmark tests including in reasoning and image understanding. The Pro model outperformed GPT-3.5, the technology that underpins the free-to-access version of ChatGPT, on six out of eight tests.
The model, called Gemini, is the first to be announced since last month’s global AI safety summit where tech firms agreed to collaborate with governments on testing advanced systems before and after their release. Google said it was in discussions with the UK’s newly formed AI Safety Institute over testing Gemini’s most powerful version, which will be released next year.
The model comes in three versions and is “multimodal”, which means it can comprehend text, audio, images, video and computer code simultaneously.
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of DeepMind, the London-based Google unit that developed Gemini, said: “It’s been the most complicated project we’ve ever worked on, I would say the biggest undertaking. It’s been an enormous effort.”
Asked if Gemini had been tested in collaboration with the US or UK governments, as set out at the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, Hassabis said Google was in discussions with the UK government about the AI Safety Institute carrying out tests on the model.
Sissie Hsiao, the general manager for Bard at Google, said the Pro-powered version of Bard would not be released in the UK yet. It is also not being released in the European Economic Area, which includes the EU and Switzerland. She said: “We are working with local regulators.” Google did not specify the regulatory issues behind the delays in the UK and EU.
Concerns over AI – the term for computer systems that can perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence – range from mass-produced disinformation to the creation of “superintelligent” systems that evade human control. Some experts are concerned about the development of artificial general intelligence, which refers to an AI that can perform an array of tasks at a human or above-human level of intelligence.
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