Google plans to relaunch its AI tool for creating images of people, which was paused last week due to inaccuracies in some historical depictions. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, announced on Monday that the relaunch is expected to occur in the next few weeks.
Alphabet’s Google introduced image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month. However, users on social media raised concerns about the accuracy of historical images generated by the tool.
“We have taken the feature offline while we fix that. We are hoping to have that back online very shortly in the next couple of weeks, few weeks,” said Hassabis during a panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Hassabis acknowledged that the tool was not functioning as intended and needed improvements.
Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, Google has been striving to develop AI software to rival that of Microsoft-backed companies.
Last year, Google released its generative AI chatbot Bard, which faced criticism for sharing inaccurate information about pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system in a promotional video. This incident caused Google’s shares to drop by as much as 9%.
Earlier this month, Bard was rebranded as Gemini, and Google introduced paid subscription plans for users seeking enhanced reasoning capabilities from the AI model.
