BARCELONA: Google plans to restart its AI tool that creates images of people in the next few weeks, which it suspended last week after inaccuracies in some historical images, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said on Monday.
Alphabet’s ( GOOGL.O ), opens a new tab Google began offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month. However, some users have flagged on social media that they generated historical images that were sometimes inaccurate.
“We’ve taken this feature offline while we fix it. We hope to have it back online very soon in the next few weeks, weeks,” Hassabis said at a panel at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The tool “didn’t work the way we intended,” he added.
Since the launch of ChatGPT OpenAI in November 2022, Google has been racing to produce AI software that could compete with the Microsoft-backed company.
When Google released its generative AI chatbot Bard a year ago, it shared inaccurate information about images of an extrasolar planet in a promotional video, sending its shares down as much as 9%.
Bard was rebranded as Gemini earlier this month, and Google introduced a paid subscription that users could opt-in to for better reasoning from the AI model.
