Gemini is an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that might intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils.Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence on December 6 with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that is likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils.Gemini’s biggest advances will not come until early 2024 when its Ultra model will be used to launch “Bard Advanced”, a juiced-up version of the chatbot that initially will only be offered to a test audience.

The AI, at first, will only work in English throughout the world, although Google executives assured reporters during a briefing that the technology will have no problem eventually diversifying into other languages.Based on a demonstration of Gemini for a group of reporters, Google’s “Bard Advanced” might be capable of unprecedented AI multitasking by simultaneously recognising and understanding presentations involving text, photos, and video.

Gemini will also eventually be infused into Google’s dominant search engine, although the timing of that transition has not been spelled out yet.

“This is a significant milestone in the development of AI, and the start of a new era for us at Google,” declared Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI division behind Gemini. Google prevailed over other bidders, including Facebook parent Meta, to acquire London-based DeepMind nearly a decade ago, and since melded it with its “Brain” division to focus on Gemini’s development.