Goodbye $100 Billion: Shares For Google’s AI ChatBot Bard Nosedive After It Gives Wrong Answer
Google’s answer to ChatGPT has gotten off to an embarrassing start, after a wrong answer plummeted shares by a whopping $100 billion for its parent company Alphabet.
Bard, which is a new artificial intelligence chatbot, gave an entirely wrong answer in a promotional video.
The bot answered the following question: “What new discoveries from the James Webb space telescope (JWST) can I tell my nine-year-old about?”
In a demo video, Bart suggests that JWST was used to take the earliest pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system or exoplanets. However, this is factually wrong.
The mistake was picked up by experts including Grant Tremblay, an astrophysicist at the US Center for Astrophysics, who tweeted:
“Not to be a ~well, actually~ jerk, and I’m sure Bard will be impressive, but for the record: JWST did not take ‘the very first image of a planet outside our solar system’”.
Speaking as someone who imaged an exoplanet 14 years before JWST was launched, it feels like you should find a better example?
— Bruce Macintosh (@bmac_astro) February 8, 2023
Google has responded to the backlash, saying that the error highlights a need for more testing. Bard has not yet been released to the public.
OpenAI, founded by Elon Musk and other investors in 2015, unveiled ChatGPT last November, which interacts in a conversational way and generated a lot of buzz when the company opened it up for the public to try out for free.
The text-generating bot, for all its clear benefits, has caused major concerns for the future of jobs in certain sectors, as well as major implications for society.
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