Google new Pro model of its latest AI

 Google’s New AI, Gemini, better than ChatGPT 

Google has released a new Pro model of its latest AI, Gemini and sources say it has outperformed GPT-3.5 (the free version of ChatGPT) in widespread testing. Google has been trying to catch up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, widely regarded as the most popular and powerful in the AI space. Google says Gemini was trained to be multimodel, meaning it can process different types of media such as text, pictures, video and audio. The Google-based AI comes in three sizes or stages, for the Gemini platform: Ultra, which is the flagship model, Pro and Nano (assigned for mobile devices). 

According to performance reports, Gemini Ultra 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. There are also reports that, 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, including both problem-solving abilities and world knowledge.

According to reports available, the company says it's making Gemini Pro available to enterprise customers through its Vertex AI program, and for developers in AI Studio. Eli Collins, VP of product at DeepMind (the division of Google tasked with building out the AI platform), says that Gemini Ultra can comprehend “nuanced” information in text, images, audio and code. Collins shared that a portion of the data used to develop the app was from public web sources. However, the company did not directly address the sources for training the AI.

Reports indicate that the Pro version can also be accessed via Bard, the company’s chatbot interface.  ChatGPT and other AI platforms are trained on (and utilize) the works of millions of artists, inventors, teachers and authors. Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI and Stability AI are all being sued by content creators, in lawsuits alleging unfair usage. Famous authors, like John Grisham (The Firm) and George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) are among a group of 17 writers who are suing Open AI for “systemic theft on a mass scale”, according to the reports. The challenge, for Gemini, ChatGPT and other AI solutions, is that there is no “permission granted” from the original human creators. There is no compensation for using the entirety of their works, in order to create something new. These authors and creators are the de-facto trainers of the AI, uncompensated for their contribution and teaching.

As more capabilities are coming in future, for Gemini and other AI offerings, “consent” is also coming into focus. Performance achievements aside, what about the raw materials which are required to make these platforms powerful? Let's not consider about energy, hardware or chips. As per US Copyright Office, under the fair use doctrine of the US copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. Indeed, this article uses such pull quotes, with attribution to sources.