
"It's been especially effective in reducing explicit content for searches related to ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender, which can disproportionately impact women and especially women of colour," he added. Nayak said last year, BERT has reduced unexpected shocking results by 30 per cent. And even when users choose to have SafeSearch off, our systems still reduce unwanted racy results for searches that aren't seeking them out," Nayak said.įurther, Google uses advanced AI technologies like BERT to better understand what an individual is looking for.īERT has improved the understanding of whether searches are truly seeking out explicit content, helping vastly to reduce the chances of encountering surprising search results. "This setting is on by default for Google accounts of people under 18. "And MUM is multimodal, so it understands information across text and images and, in the future, can expand to more modalities like video and audio," he added.Īnother feature to keep an individual safe on Search, while also steering clear of unexpected shocking results, is the SafeSearch mode, which offers users the option to filter explicit results. It's trained across 75 different languages and many different tasks at once, allowing it to develop a more comprehensive understanding of information and world knowledge than previous models," shared Pandu Nayak, Google Fellow and Vice President of Search, in a blogpost.


"MUM not only understands language, but also generates it. MUM can better understand the intent behind people's questions to detect when a person is in need, which helps us more reliably show trustworthy and actionable information at the right time.
