News Summary:
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The tech giant tweeted a short GIF video of Bard in action, describing the chatbot as a “starting point for curiosity” that helps simplify complex topics.
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Google ran an online ad, and the long-awaited AI chatbot Bard returned an inaccurate response.
In the ad, Bard is prompted, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I teach my 9-year-old child?”
NASA has confirmed that the first image of an exoplanet was taken in 2004 by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The bug was discovered hours before Google hosted the Bard launch event in Paris. At the event, his executive, Prabhakar Raghavan, promised that users would use the technology to manipulate information in “a whole new way.”
The Bard responds with a series of answers, including one suggesting that JWST was used to capture the first-ever image of a planet outside Earth’s solar system, an exoplanet. that is inaccurate.
Raghavan said Wednesday that he introduced Bard as the company’s future, employing generative AI for viewers, saying that “the only limit to search is your imagination.”
Google’s launch event came a day after Microsoft announced plans to integrate its rival AI chatbot, ChatGPT, with his Bing search engine and other products.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. We announced the Bard launch on Monday. At the time of writing, this ad has been viewed over 880,000 times on Twitter.
