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Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

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[–] fidodo 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot of the improvement will come from breaking down the problem using sub assistant for specific actions. So in this case you're asking for an image generation action involving people, then an LLM specifically designed for that use case can take over tuned for that exact use case. I think it'll be hard to keep an LLM on task if you have one prompt trying to accomplish every possible outcome, but you can make it more specific to handle sub tasks more accurately. We could even potentially get an LLM to dynamically create sub assistants based on the use case. Right now the tech is too slow to do all this stuff at scale and in real time, but it will get faster. The problem right now isn't that these fixes aren't possible, it's that they're hard to scale.

[–] kromem 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is exactly correct. And it's not actually too slow - the specialized models can be run quite quickly, and there's various speedups like Groq.

The issue is just more cost of multiple passes, so companies are trying to have it be "all-in-one" even though cognitive science in humans isn't an all-in-one process either.

For example, AI alignment would be much better if it took inspiration from the prefrontal cortex inhibiting intrusive thoughts rather than trying to prevent the generation of the equivalent of intrusive thoughts in the first place.

[–] fidodo 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The issue is just more cost of multiple passes, so companies are trying to have it be "all-in-one"

Exactly, that's where the too slow part comes in. To get more robust behavior it needs multiple layers of meta analysis, but that means it would take way more text generation under the hood than what's needed for one shot output.

[–] kromem 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but in terms of speed you don't need the same parameters and quantization for the secondary layers.

If you haven't seen it, see how fast a very capable model can actually be: https://groq.com/

[–] fidodo 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I've seen that. I think things will get much faster very quickly, I'm just commenting on the first Gen tech we're seeing right now.