What is Google Gemini?
Google Gemini is an AI-powered chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing and machine learning. Gemini is designed around search. It aims to allow for more natural language queries, rather than keywords, for search. Gemini's AI is trained around natural-sounding conversational queries and responses. Instead of just giving a list of answers, it provides context to the responses. It is also designed to help with follow-up questions -- something new to search.
How Does it Work?
Google Gemini is built on the Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2), a language model released in late 2022. PaLM and the model that preceded it, Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) technology, are based on Transformer, Google's neural network architecture released in 2017.
What are its Limitations?
Like all AI chatbots, Gemini must learn and be trained to give the correct answer from inaccurate or misleading information, as was evident during its first demo. AI training is an endless, compute-intensive process since there is always new information to learn.