Bard chatbot ads displayed inaccurate information and analysts said Google’s AI search event lacked details about how to answer Microsoft’s ChatGPT challenge. Lost over a billion dollars.
Shares of the company’s parent company, Alphabet, fell 7.8%, making it one of the hottest traders on U.S. exchanges.
“This is the problem here and they are punishing inventory severely. This is justified. Because I’m pretty excited.” Market Structures Analyst at Triple D Trading.
The tech giant posted a short GIF video of Bird in action Via Twitterdescribes chatbots as a “curiosity starting point” that helps simplify complex topics.
In the ad, the bard is prompted:
Bard responds with a number of answers, including one that suggests JWST was used to take the first pictures of planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets. This is inaccurate.
The first picture of an exoplanet was taken in 2004 by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Confirmed by NASA.
The error was spotted hours before Google hosted Bard’s launch event in Paris. There, his senior manager, Prabhakar Raghavan, promised that users would use the technology to interact with information in “a whole new way.”
Raghavan introduced Bard Wednesday as the company’s future, telling audiences that “the only limit to search is your imagination” using generative AI.
Google’s launch event comes a day after Microsoft announced plans to integrate rival AI chatbot ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and other products.
Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment. We announced the launch of Bard on Monday.
At the time of this writing, the ad had been viewed over 1 million times on Twitter.
