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Google explains why Gemini’s image generation feature overcorrected for diversity

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 to pause Gemini AI model’s image generation of people due to inaccuracies

Google is pausing its AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions generated by the model, the latest hiccup in the Alphabet-owned company's efforts to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.Google started offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month, but over the past few days some users on social media had flagged that the model returns historical images which are sometimes inaccurate. "We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some…

Google promises to fix Gemini’s image generation following complaints that it’s ‘woke’

Google's Gemini chatbot, which was formerly called Bard, has the capability to whip up AI-generated illustrations based on a user's text description. You can ask it to create pictures of happy couples, for instance, or people in period clothing walking modern streets. As the BBC notes, however, some users are criticizing Google for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals. Now, Google has issued a statement, saying that it's aware Gemini "is offering…

One Hell of a Snappy Digital Camera for the TikTok Generation

Sometimes, or–hell–most of the time, you need something simple to remind you of life’s simple pleasures. The newly-announced X100VI camera from Fujifilm can capture some of those golden moments with some impressive depth of color. Still, the $1,600 digital camera and the return of the still-popular X100 lineup itself feels like a small treasure, one that’s both nostalgic and fully capable of capturing the small moments in full detail. If single-lens, faux physical, and all digital are your preferred ways to shoot, the…

Scene Graph Generation and its Application in Robotics

Let’s have a small talk about visualizing images with interactive graphical representation!Scene graph generation is the process of generating scene graphs and a scene graph contains the visual understanding of an image in the form of a graph. It has nodes and edges representing the objects and their relationships, respectively. Contextual information about the scenes can help in semantic scene understanding. Although there are certain challenges such as uncertainty of real-world scenarios or unavailability of a standard…

Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation: From Theory to LlamaIndex Implementation

How to address limitations of naive RAG pipelines by implementing targeted advanced RAG techniques in PythonDifference between Naive and Advanced RAG (Image by the author, inspired by )A recent survey on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) summarized three recently evolved paradigms:Naive RAG,advanced RAG, andmodular RAG.The advanced RAG paradigm comprises of a set of techniques targeted at addressing known limitations of naive RAG. This article first discusses these techniques, which can be categorized into…

how to take a screenshot on an iPhone (any generation)

There's no print screen button on your iPhone, but you can take a screenshot on an iPhone with just a couple of button presses. It doesn't matter if you have the iPhone 8, iPhone 15, or any other model of iPhone — they can all do this. Using screenshots is a perfect way to share problems with smartphone updates, funny things you see on websites, or that weird text you just got. All you need to know is what the right buttons are, which we'll cover here, alongside a few techniques to spruce up your iPhone…

Streets of Rogue 2 developer explains the game’s procedural generation systems

Though there’s certainly a glut of Roguelike, Rogue-lite, and wannabe Rogue-lite titles on the market, few games embrace the concept of procedural generation to quite the same extent as Streets of Rogue and its upcoming sequel do. That is precisely what the developer Matt Dabrowski’s latest developer vlog focuses on. The sheer scope and ridiculousness of the original Streets of Rogue was very impressive back in the day, allowing players to, say, smash buildings wide open as a giant gorilla. You could also be a jock, an…