New Delhi:
Google’s AI assistant Gemini is now available as an app for Android smartphone users in India with support for English and nine other Indian languages. iPhone users will have to wait a few weeks for Gemini’s roll-out, according to a Google blog post.

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New Delhi:

Amid the growing debate over artificial intelligence (AI) models, Google on Tuesday launched its AI assistant Gemini’s mobile app in India.

The Gemini app is now available in India, supporting English and nine languages — Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

The app allows users to type, talk, or even add an image to get the assistance they need.

“We’re also adding these local languages to Gemini Advanced, plus other new features, and launching Gemini in Google Messages in English,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X social media platform.

According to the company, Gemini Advanced users in India can now access the power of Gemini 1.5 Pro, its most advanced model, in nine languages.

“Additionally, we’re unlocking new features in Gemini Advanced such as new data analysis capabilities and file uploads, and also launching the ability to chat with Gemini in Google Messages, starting in English,” said Amar Subramanya, Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences.

On iOS, Gemini access is rolling out directly from the Google app over the next few weeks.

With a 1 million token context window, Gemini Advanced now has the longest context of any widely available consumer chatbot worldwide.

“We’re also introducing Gemini in Google Messages to give you another way to collaborate with Gemini on your phone,” said the company.

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San Francisco:

OpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and even more human-like version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free to all users.

The update to OpenAI’s flagship product landed a day before Google is expected to make its own announcements about Gemini, the search engine giant’s own AI tool that competes with ChatGPT head on.

“We’re very, very excited to bring GPT-4o to all of our free users out there,” Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said at the highly anticipated launch event in San Francisco.

The new model GPT-4o — the “O” stands for omni — will be rolled out in OpenAI’s products over the next few weeks, the company said, with paid customers having unlimited access to the tool.

The company said the model could generate content or understand commands in voice, text, or images.

“The new voice (and video) mode is the best computer interface I’ve ever used. It feels like AI from the movies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a blog post.

Altman has previously pointed to the Scarlett Johansson character in the movie “Her” as an inspiration for where he would like AI interactions to go.

“Talking to a computer has never felt really natural for me; now it does,” he added.

Murati and engineers from OpenAI demonstrated the new powers of GPT-4o at the virtual event, posing challenges to the beefed-up version of the ChatGPT chatbot.

The demo mainly featured OpenAI staff members asking questions to the voiced ChatGPT, which responded with jokes and human-like banter.

The bot served as an interpreter from English to Italian, interpreted facial expressions and walked one user through a difficult algebra problem.

The company said that GPT-4o had the same powers as the previous version when it came to text, reasoning, and coding intelligence, and set new industry standards for multilingual conversations, audio, and vision.

In one demonstration, ChatGPT successfully interpreted an employee’s surroundings through a smartphone camera, speaking in a friendly, feminine voice, not unlike the AI bot in the film “Her”.

“Hmmm from what I can see it looks like you’re in some kind of recording or production set-up with lights, tripods… you might be gearing up to shoot a video or make an announcement?” the ChatGPT bot said.

– ‘Take our time’ –

Anticipation was high in recent weeks that OpenAI would release an AI-amped version of an online search tool to compete with Google search engine, but on Friday Altman said this would not be the case.

Observers were also waiting for the launch of GPT-5, but Altman said last week that his company would “take our time on releases of major new models.”

The event is just the latest episode in the AI arms race that has seen OpenAI-backer Microsoft surpass Apple as the world’s biggest company by market capitalization.

OpenAI and Microsoft are in a heated rivalry with Google to be generative AI’s major player, but Facebook-owner Meta and upstart Anthropic are also making big moves to compete.

All the companies are scrambling to come up with ways to cover generative AI’s exorbitant costs, much of which goes to chip giant Nvidia and its powerful GPU semiconductors.

Making the new model available to all users may raise questions about OpenAI’s path to monetization amid doubts that everyday users are ready to pay a subscription.

Until now, only lower performing versions of OpenAI or Google’s chatbots were available to customers for free.

“We are a business and will find plenty of things to charge for,” Altman said on his blog.

The AI makers are also feeling pressure from publishers and creators, who are demanding payment for any content used to train the models.

OpenAI has signed content partnerships with the Associated Press, the Financial Times and Axel Springer, but is also caught in a major lawsuit with The New York Times.

AI companies have also been confronted with separate lawsuits from artists, musicians, and authors in US courtrooms.

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Google is restricting AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions about the global elections set to happen this year, the Alphabet-owned firm said on Tuesday, as it looks to avoid potential missteps in the deployment of the technology.

The update comes at a time when advancements in generative AI, including image and video generation, have fanned concerns of misinformation and fake news among the public, prompting governments to regulate the technology.

When asked about elections such as the upcoming U.S. presidential match-up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Gemini responds with “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search”.

Google had announced restrictions within the U.S. in December, saying they would come into effect ahead of the election.

“In preparation for the many elections happening around the world in 2024 and out of an abundance of caution, we are restricting the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses,” a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Aside from the United States, national elections are set to be held in several large countries including South Africa and India, the world’s largest democracy.

India has asked tech firms to seek government approval before the public release of AI tools that are “unreliable” or under trial, and to label them for the potential to return wrong answers.

Google’s AI products are under the scanner after inaccuracies in some historical depictions of people created by Gemini forced it to pause the chatbot’s image-generation feature late last month.

CEO Sundar Pichai had said the company was working to fix those issues and called the chatbot’s responses “biased” and “completely unacceptable”.

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said last month it will set up a team to tackle disinformation and the abuse of generative AI in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June.

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As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, researchers are now developing AI worms which can steal your confidential data and break security measures of the generative AI systems, as per a report in Wired.

Researchers from Cornell University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit created the first generative AI worm called ‘Morris II’ which can steal data or deploy malware and spread from one system to another. It has been named after the first worm which was launched on the internet in 1988. Ben Nassi, a Cornell Tech researcher, said, “It basically means that now you have the ability to conduct or to perform a new kind of cyberattack that hasn’t been seen before,”

The AI worm can breach some security measures in ChatGPT and Gemini by attacking a generative AI email assistant with the intent of stealing email data and sending spam, as per the outlet.

The researchers used an “adversarial self-replicating prompt” to develop the generative AI worm. According to them, this prompt causes the generative AI model to generate a different prompt in response. To execute it, the researchers then created an email system that could send and receive messages using generative AI, adding into ChatGPT, Gemini, and open-source LLM. Further, they discovered two ways to utilise the system- by using a self-replicating prompt that was text-based and by embedding the question within an image file.

In one case, the researchers took on the role of attackers and sent an email with an adversarial text prompt. This “poisons” the email assistant’s database by utilising retrieval-augmented generation, which allows LLMs to get more data from outside their system. According to Mr Nassi, the retrieval-augmented generation “jailbreaks the GenAI service” when it retrieves an email in response to a user inquiry and sends it to GPT-4 or Gemini Pro to generate a response. This eventually results in the theft of data from the emails.

“The generated response containing the sensitive user data later infects new hosts when it is used to reply to an email sent to a new client and then stored in the database of the new client,” he added.

For the second method, the researcher mentioned, “By encoding the self-replicating prompt into the image, any kind of image containing spam, abuse material, or even propaganda can be forwarded further to new clients after the initial email has been sent.”

A video showcasing the findings shows the email system repeatedly forwarding a message. The researchers claim that they could also obtain email data.”It can be names, it can be telephone numbers, credit card numbers, SSN, anything that is considered confidential,” Mr Nassi said.

The researchers also warned about “bad architecture design” within the AI system. They also reported their observations to Google and OpenAI. “They appear to have found a way to exploit prompt-injection type vulnerabilities by relying on user input that hasn’t been checked or filtered,” a spokesperson for OpenAI told the outlet. Further, they mentioned that they are working to make systems “more resilient” and developers should “use methods that ensure they are not working with harmful input.” 

Google declined to comment on the subject.