, March 20 -- At the risk of being labelled a technophobe, I must say I am not convinced this will be the silver bullet for everything, as it is being touted at the moment.

Google's highly hyped Gemini AI system went spectacularly pear-shaped earlier this month, delivering bizarre images from Native American Vikings, to Black Roman senators, to a Black woman Pope. In an interesting variation of the old computer programming adage "garbage in, garbage out", Google's clevers got caught out by their own political correctness and desire not to offend - and ended up doing the very thing they wanted to avoid.

Gemini has taken some time out while they patch a few things (Beta version, anyone?) but Google's high-profile blaps has not been good f...