Google AI chatbot Bard offers inaccurate information in company ad, shares slump

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LONDON : Google shares slipped on Wednesday after it published an online advertisement in which its much-anticipated AI chatbot Bard delivered an inaccurate answer. The tech giant posted a short GIF video of Bard in action via Twitter, describing the chatbot as a 'launchpad for curiosity' that would help

LONDON : Google shares slipped on Wednesday after it published an online advertisement in which its much-anticipated AI chatbot Bard delivered an inaccurate answer.

In the advertisement, Bard is given the prompt:"What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year old about?" The error was spotted hours before Google hosted a launch event for Bard in Paris, where senior executive Prabhakar Raghavan promised that users would use the technology to interact with information in"entirely new ways".

 

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