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🍪 Gemini’s woke snafu

🍪 Gemini’s woke snafu

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In the oven this week:

🤖 Google’s too woke for its own good
🍪 Cookie crumbs: 6 bite-sized headlines
💬 Tweet of the week: FIO
🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds of the week
😂 Snickerdoodles: Thursday memes

FRESHLY BAKED

GEMINI’S WOKE SNAFU

You know that nice ol’ saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions?”

Well, Google’s been paving that road one disaster at a time.

They got into hot water this week, when people started using Gemini to create historical images.

How bad is it?

Well, I’ll just let you take a look for yourself:

Looks a little different than the history you were taught in school eh?

Google’s attempts at racial and gender diversity have created a model that’s just a little too woke to be accurate.

After all the backlash online, Google addressed the issue, calling it “off the mark,” and suspended Gemini's ability to create images of people.

But, of course, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

And people started really going at it:

every single person who worked on this should take a long hard look in the mirror.
absolutely appalling.
— Frantastic — e/acc (@Frantastic_7)
Feb 25, 2024

The outputs of these models are the direct result of how it was trained, which reflects the values of the people that built it... aka Google engineers.

Now are all AI models biased to some degree?

Of course, but people hold Google to a different standard.

And it looks like this is just the tip of the iceberg for these guys.

Let’s just say it’s a good week not to be Sundar…

BITE SIZED HEADLINES

Nvidia crushed earnings this week, sending their stock up a whopping 17% after it reported beats on revenue, EPS, and net income. It sold $18.4bn of datacentre AI chips in Q4, up from $3.3bn in Q4 2022. Now, the stock’s at an all time high, and Nvidia is more valuable in terms of market cap than both Amazon and Google 🤯. It’s currently the 4th most valuable company in the world behind MSFT, Apple, and Saudi Aramco. Wild.
After getting delayed a few years, Reddit finally filed for their IPO, and they’re giving a portion of the shares to their top users. If you qualify, you get the option to purchase the stock at the same price as institutional investors. Time to boost that karma, people!
Apparently, Apple’s Vision pro costs $1.5K to make…no wonder it’s so dang expensive.
Google is gonna pay Reddit $60M per year for access to real time AI training data. It's also giving Reddit access to Vertex AI, which is their AI service that helps companies improve their search results.
After over a decade of hyping us up for an Apple car, they’ve finally pulled the plug. Looks like Tim got us all riled up for nothin’.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says kids probably don’t need to learn how to code anymore. Why? AI is gonna kill coding (by doing it for us). Whew! Saving us business majors from a lotta regret.

THE BIG PIZOOKIE

TWEET OF THE WEEK

The #1 thing I look for when hiring people is FIO.
"Figure It Out"
You can get pretty damn far just by being:
- Resourceful
- Reliable
- Results oriented
— Tech Sales Guy (@TechSalesGuy3)
Feb 24, 2024

Resourcefulness is probably the most underrated trait. In my experience, it’s usually what separates the best from the rest.

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

OUR FAVORITE FINDS

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

this is the type of passive income i need in my life right now
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss)
Feb 19, 2024

😂

That's all we got for ya this week, folks. See ya next Thursday!

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