Google’s Bard AI stumbles out of the gate, makes costly error in first demo

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority

• Google posted a GIF of its AI chatbot, Bard, in action.
• Astronomers on Twitter pointed out that Google’s new tool made a mistake.
• After news of the flub spread, shares of Alphabet dropped by 8%.

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Yesterday, Microsoft held a surprise AI event where it performed a live demo of its AI-powered Bing search engine. Not to be outdone, Google posted a demo on Twitter of its own AI chatbot. However, things didn’t go exactly as planned.

It’s no secret that the overwhelming popularity of ChatGPT has Google worried. To compete against this threat to its business, Google revealed its own AI chatbot — Bard. The tool can produce intelligent responses to natural language queries by using information scraped from the internet.

via Android Authority https://www.androidauthority.com