Submitted by MINE_exchange t3_10xt55o in Futurology
Alphabet shares fell by 9% (approximately $100 billion) after the unsuccessful presentation of the Bard AI service which was supposed to become a competitor to ChatGPT.
Google posted on Twitter screenshots from the presentation of the AI platform, where the question was asked: “What discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I tell my 9-year-old child about?”. Bard replied that this telescope took the first photographs of exoplanets outside the solar system. This is the wrong answer. The first images were taken by the European Southern Observatory Telescope in 2004 and confirmed by NASA.
In response to this incident, a Google representative stated the importance of preliminary testing of AI systems and recalled that Bard is just at the pilot launch stage, and such “errors” are pretty acceptable.