The shares of Alphabet – the parent company of Google – fell over 7 per cent after its new AI chatbot was found to contain inaccurate information.
Bard is an AI tool created by Google to compete with ChatGPT, a free app that generates text in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and even poetry. The popularity of the app has skyrocketed over the past few months, leading Microsoft to incorporate its technology into a new version of its search engine, Bing.
In an ad promoting Bard, the bot was asked: “What new discoveries from the James Webb space telescope (JWST) can I tell my nine-year old about?”
Bard replied that JWST was the first telescope to take pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system. This answer is incorrect. The milestone was actually claimed by the European Very Large Telescope in 2004, as pointed out by several Twitter users and reported by Nasa.
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