Alphabet’s Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot “Bard” failed to answer questions from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), fueling concerns that its related tools are not yet ready for integration into search engines. Alphabet shares tumbled more than 8 percent during the session.
Before the deadline, the intraday stock price of Alphabet (GOOGL-US) fell 8.28%, to $98.77 per share.
Google released a short video ad on Twitter to promote its AI chatbot Bard. Bard is a ChatGPT competitor that has become popular recently and poses a huge threat to Google search. However, the highly anticipated Bard has a bad start.
The question asked, “What new discoveries can I tell my 9-year-old about the Webb Space Telescope?” To which Bard had a number of answers, one of which was that the first image of an exoplanet was the Webb Space Telescope taking pictures. But that answer is wrong. According to NASA, the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) took the first photo of an exoplanet.
Bard’s error sent Google shares tumbling on Wednesday, falling more than 8 percent during the session, while fueling concerns that its related tools are not yet ready to be integrated into the search engine. For the time being, Bard seems to be difficult to compete with the powerful ChatGPT, and Google has not yet responded to the relevant situation.
Google said in the Twitter ad that Bard is an experimental conversational AI service based on the language model LaMDA. Bard uses Google’s large-scale language models to structure and exploit information on the web. Google says its chatbot helps simplify complex topics, and the ad has now been viewed 1 million times on Twitter.
Yesterday, Microsoft (MSFT-US), which holds a stake in ChatGPT, announced the launch of a new AI-powered Bing page with an expanded chat window that can give users more than factual answers to their questions. Microsoft said that Bing uses GPT-3.5, an upgraded AI language model that is more powerful than the model used by ChatGPT, and plans to roll it out to millions of users within a few weeks.
