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Google said Friday that the company is expanding Gemini’s latest deep search mode to 40 more languages.
The company started operating deep research mode earlier this month, Google One AI allowed premium plan users to unlock a sort of AI-powered research assistant. The depth function works in a multi-step way, from creating a research plan to finding relevant information. Then, based on that information, the tool searches again to extract knowledge. After repeating this process several times, it generates a report.
Languages supported by Gemini include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Swahili, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Tani, Ukrainian, and Urdu.
The challenge for Google is to find reliable sources in a given language and then summarize them in the native language without breaking the grammar.
Speaking to TechCrunch in early December, Gemini’s director of engineering, HyunJeong Choe, said that while the company trains the model using clean data and reliable sources, Google’s AI review in native languages like Hindi, summaries tend to be inaccurate.
“We generally rely on local sources of information and we also use Google search to base this information. In addition, we perform evaluations and fact-checks on native language data before introducing the model,” said Choe.
“Factuality, or obtaining correct information, is a popular research problem for generative artificial intelligence. Although the model already has a lot of data in pre-training mode, we focus on training the model to use the data properly,” said Choe.
Jules Walter, head of product for international markets for the Gemini program, said the company has pilot programs to get quality checks from local prospects. He noted that the company creates data to develop models. In addition, local teams also review those datasets.
Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that a contractor firm working to improve Gemini with its Ranking Answers received instructions from Google. contractors were no longer allowed to bypass operational responses regardless of experience.
After this report was published, a Google spokesperson said contractors were not only evaluating responses based on content, but also looking at style, format, and other factors.
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