Gemini misses the mark when it comes to socializing AI in this week’s biggest Android news

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It would be a shame if it felt like the AI revolution was moving too fast. The money is there, and many companies see this technology as the biggest cash cow since the dot-com boom. This week’s Android news made that even more clear. Google had to suspend Gemini features that were clearly a bit undercooked, and which ‘big unknown AI company’ is he injecting capital into Reddit ahead of his IPO This is because it became clear. Meanwhile, some Wyze Cam users may be dying of embarrassment as the popular app is discontinued. This week, he’s making headlines with two gorgeous smartwatches that have fallen off the shelves.

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Here’s what happened last week in the Android world

Android 15 is out, Samsung applauds the update, and the old Frankenphone is finally here

Gemini is off the mark

Google remains committed to Gemini, its new multimodal AI model that has been making its way into its products lately, but not everything is rosy this week. After rebranding Duet AI to Gemini in Workspace and launching a new subscription tier to access AI in apps like Gmail, Docs, Slides, and more, Google is introducing open AI created for developers to take advantage of. Adding to the good vibes, they introduced a family of models: Gemma. .

However, things changed at the end of the week as users realized that Geminis tend to create inaccurate and sometimes insensitive images when asked to generate photos of historical figures or settings. rapidly worsened towards. Google responded by temporarily disabling Gemini’s ability to generate images of people, and the company said this was at least partially due to tweaks to the feature to prevent user abuse. . Gemini was still unable to generate images of people as of this weekend, and Google said it would work on “significantly” improving the feature before re-enabling it.

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Google temporarily suspends Gemini’s human image generation feature

AI caught producing problematic content like racially diverse Nazis

Google and Reddit AI Training Partnership

Earlier in the week, we learned that an “unknown large AI company” had reached an agreement to access Reddit’s treasure trove of user-submitted content for the purpose of training AI models. The deal was said to be worth $60 million a year and was expected to increase Reddit’s value ahead of its IPO scheduled for next month.

A few days later, we discovered that the AI company was, you guessed it, Google. The search company announced a partnership with Reddit to provide cloud services and train its AI on the social media aggregator’s API. As you know, most third-party Reddit suddenly disappeared with the same API that famously went for a fee last year. client. As we saw in the first story of this roundup, Gemini still has some things to learn. I don’t know if Reddit’s toxic comment sections are the best teachers.

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Google uses Reddit’s hateful content to train AI

$60 million annual deal signed ahead of Reddit’s rumored IPO

Google Pay app has been discontinued

The Google Pay app’s ridiculously circuitous journey has finally come to an end, at least in the US. After helping popularize mobile payments, Google Wallet merged with Android Pay to form Google Pay, which was renamed again to Google Wallet a few years later. Along the way, the Google Pay brand was revived as a peer-to-peer payments app in some markets, including the US, but that app is now retired.

Users will have until June to withdraw any money left in the app, but after that they can continue to access Google Pay on the web. To be honest, I’m a little confused, so I recommend reading the full text below.

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Google Pay app to be shut down in US

This app will be retired in June in favor of Google Wallet

Wyze users are spied on again

It’s becoming all too common for internet-based security cameras to do the exact opposite of their intended purpose: making people feel unsafe in their homes after a data breach or other technical failure. Wyze has been included in these cameras in the past, and now we find ourselves doing damage control for another major failure.

After the service briefly went offline last weekend, some Wyze Cam users received event notifications from other people’s homes that included thumbnails and, in some cases, actual video clips. Wise said that while 99.75% of its users were unaffected, 0.25% of them were still likely looking for a new security camera, as their cameras are so cheap that they are firmly in impulse buy territory. Said to represent a large number of users.

Wyze is involved in another security incident affecting thousands of people

Wyze is certainly bad at security for a security camera company.

Two of Android’s biggest companies announce new watches

Finally, MWC 2024 kicked off this week in Barcelona, bringing with it new smartwatches from OnePlus and Samsung. The former simply announced the OnePlus Watch 2 after the first-generation watch was poorly received, saying, “It’s time to do it right.” The Watch 2 is set to debut today, February 24th, and features a bold new design that’s sure to turn heads.

Meanwhile, Samsung has revived its Galaxy Fit line with a new smartwatch that’s so wide it can no longer be called a fitness band. No complaints, though, as it has an Apple Watch feel to it and seems to be packed with all the features you’d want in both a watch and a health tracker. I still want to check back to see the full review, but in the meantime you can read all the interesting details at the link below.