Gemini Hits the Fan
Google’s new AI “Gemini” raised some interesting questions this week. Is anyone buying Google’s answers?
Some questions may never be answered, even in the Information Age.
Some of these unanswerable questions are deep, existential tech queries like “Why is Apple Maps terrible?” and “The Segway — just why?”
Even in our age of information and technology, even the smartest people, concentrated in the smartest valley on earth, pooling vast amounts of data, using the most advanced computers with virtually unlimited processing power still manage to get it wrong sometimes.
In 2024, we have another example of a wildly expensive Silicon Valley faceplant.
Google, the single greatest purveyor of internet search engines bar none, released a new, highly advanced AI product called Gemini recently. This hot tech product landed directly in the laps of early adopters eager to 1.) get their hands on this likely new tech and/or 2.) find fun weaknesses to exploit for likes and clicks.
Whereupon the internet instantly fell upon it like a pack of ravening fiends.
Almost immediately, an odd sort of quirk emerged. Soon, it would balloon into a full-fledged scandal.
When users prompted Gemini to create images of white people, it refused. Depicting…