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After complaints that Google’s image generator built into its Gemini AI was (ugh) woke, Google explained why it may have overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s senior vice president for knowledge and information, said Google’s efforts to ensure a wide range of people generated in images “failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range.”Users criticized Google for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals. In Engadget’s…

After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company's Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information, explained that Google's efforts to ensure that the chatbot would generate images showing a wide range of people "failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range." Further, its AI model grew to become "way more cautious"…

Google apologised Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would "overcompensate" in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn't make sense.The partial explanation for why its images put people of colour in historical settings where they wouldn't normally be found came a day after Google said it was temporarily stopping its Gemini chatbot from generating any images with people in them. That was in response to a social…

Subarctic grassland undergoing natural geothermal warming in Iceland. Credit: C: Christina Kaiser Warmer soils harbor a greater diversity of active microbes, according to a new study from researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna. The study, published in Science Advances,…

Google said Thursday it’s pausing its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate people. The move comes after viral social posts showed the AI tool overcorrecting for diversity, producing “historical” images of Nazis, America’s Founding Fathers and the Pope as people of color.“We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google posted on X (via The New York Times). “While we do this, we’re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.”The X…

The Sims 4’s Delivery Express (SDX) feature that Maxis regularly releases to introduce new, free content to the game. It typically consists of a few Create-A-Sim (CAS) or build items between their major pack launches. The highlight of the latest The Sims 4 SDX, introduced on February 13, 2024, features a wide array of additions to CAS in the form of new Vitiligo skin details as part of a collaboration with supermodel Winnie Harlow. Vitiligo is a skin condition that causes patchy skin resulting from loss of pigmentation.…

Physical dynamics of the escarpment landscape evolution model, in the initial state (A–C) and at a model time of 28.2 Myr (D–F). Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adi0833 Madagascar is home to more than 11,000 plant species, 80% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zurich has put forward a new hypothesis for the…

Minority, veteran and women-focused business advocacy groups are urging companies to invest in diversity initiatives that are under legal attack and face fierce opposition. Minority, veteran and women-focused business advocacy groups are urging companies to invest in diversity initiatives that are under legal attack and face fierce opposition. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the…

Now that the 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced, and the voting window for eventual winners is around the corner, awards season has kicked into high gear. Moviegoers had a lot of thoughts, feelings, opinions, and reactions to this year’s nominations, including how Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated in the Best Director category despite Barbie being a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the highest-grossing movie of the year ($1.4 billion worldwide), and receiving eight other nominations, including Best Picture. Now,…

Jorge Calderon Contributor Jorge Calderon is managing director at San Francisco–based Inicio Ventures, an initiative of Hispanics in Philanthropy. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been a tech investor, founder, organizer, strategist and academic. I’m proud to be part of a growing group of diverse leaders shaping an innovation system that represents and benefits us all. But in recent months, I’ve become increasingly troubled by the absence of Latinx/e founders and leaders in today’s…