Trending Before BARD failed, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made some strong claims, saying that AI could beat Google in search. In an interview, he said he wanted people to know that “we made them [Google] dance”, adding that he had the “greatest admiration” for Google.
Alphabet on Wednesday saw its new chatbot BARD lose $100 billion in market value as a result of providing false answers and misinformation in a promotional video and at a company event, fueling fears that the parent company Google is falling behind its rival Microsoft.
After OpenAI, a company Microsoft is investing $10 billion in, the unveiling of ChatGPT in November surprised users and created a buzz in Silicon Valley circles for its surprisingly accurate and straightforward question answers. Obsessed, Google gets a shock.
Bard is an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. Built using our large language models and drawing on information from the web, it’s a launchpad for curiosity and can help simplify complex topics → https://t.co/fSp531xKy3 pic.twitter.com/JecHXVmt8l
— Google (@Google) February 6, 2023
Google took to Twitter and shared a GIF showing BARD answering a question.
“What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I share with my 9-year-old?”
Bard offers three bullet points as an answer, including one that the telescope “took the first image of a planet outside our own solar system”.
However, astronomers were quick to point out that this was false and, as reported on NASA’s website, the first photo of an exoplanet was actually taken in 2004.
Not to be a ~well, actually~ jerk, and I'm sure Bard will be impressive, but for the record: JWST did not take "the very first image of a planet outside our solar system".
— Grant Tremblay (@astrogrant) February 7, 2023
the first image was instead done by Chauvin et al. (2004) with the VLT/NACO using adaptive optics. https://t.co/bSBb5TOeUW pic.twitter.com/KnrZ1SSz7h
Nadella was asked if he expected “renewed competition against Google’s most important product to change their relationship”. “I hope that, with our innovation, they will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance. And I want people to know that we made them dance, and I Looks like it’s going to be a good day.”
Nadella said Google dominated the market “by a significant margin” for a long time, adding that he expected more innovation and competition. “There will be other competitors, not just us.”
Advertisers will make more money and publishers will get richer this way, he told JEE News.
According to JEE News report, chatbot AI systems also pose risks to corporations because their algorithms have inherent biases that can skew results, sexualize images or even plagiarize, such as Discovered by users testing the service.
