Bard

“Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad”

My summary of what happened:

1. Google tried to upstage Microsoft’s ChatGPT-in-Bing announcement by announcing Google’s own chat-in-search system, Bard.
2. As part of that announcement, they posted a brief video showing Bard in action.
3. In that video, Bard claimed that the JWST “took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.”
4. In reality, the first image of an exoplanet was taken in 2004 by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
5. The internet pointed out Bard’s error.
6. Google’s stock price immediately dropped by 9%, reducing the company’s market value by $100 billion.

Reminder: Current AI chatbots make stuff up. Don’t trust what they tell you without verifying it.

(Original Facebook post.)