And so far, the internet giant seems to be coming up with the wrong answer.
An advert designed to show off its new AI bot, showed it answering a query incorrectly.
Shares in parent company Alphabet sank more than 7% on Wednesday, knocking $100bn (£82bn) off the firm’s market value.
In the promotion for the bot, known as Bard, which was released on Twitter on Monday, the bot was asked about what to tell a nine-year-old about discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope.
It offered the response that the telescope was the first to take pictures of a planet outside the earth’s solar system, when in fact that milestone was claimed by the European Very Large Telescope in 2004 – a mistake quickly noted by astronomers on Twitter.
Source: BBC Business News
Date: February 10th, 2023
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64576225
Discussion
- The real issue here is likely not the mistake made by the Bard AI-bot in the advert, but more that Microsoft is looking like it is ahead of Google with it’s $10billion+ investment in ChatGPT.
Why is an AI that you can chat to and get human-like responses so valuable? - In what ways can chatbots get things wrong? Another way to ask this is how did Google Bard get the answer to its question wrong?
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