Posted on 02/10/2023 6:37:56 AM PST by Golden Eagle
Google is searching for ways to reassure people that it is still out in front in the race for the best artificial intelligence technology. And so far, the internet giant seems to be coming up with the wrong answer. An advert designed to show off its new AI bot, showed it answering a query incorrectly.
Shares in parent company Alphabet sank more than 7% on Wednesday, knocking $100bn (£82bn) off the firm's market value.
In the promotion for the bot, known as Bard, which was released on Twitter on Monday, the bot was asked about what to tell a nine-year-old about discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope.
It offered the response that the telescope was the first to take pictures of a planet outside the earth's solar system, when in fact that milestone was claimed by the European Very Large Telescope in 2004 - a mistake quickly noted by astronomers on Twitter.
"Why didn't you factcheck this example before sharing it?" Chris Harrison, a fellow at Newcastle University, replied to the tweet.
Investors were also underwhelmed by a presentation the company gave about its plans to deploy artificial intelligence in its products.
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A google search only gives you propaganda so use it if you want propaganda ,LOL
Whoops, 100 billion is not pocket change.
Just wait until it learns to ‘code’......................
They couldn’t help themselves and they gave it a left wing bias. It doesn’t work in real life, why would it work in AI?
The other Chatbot is screwed up just as badly and only spews libtard dogma
I use my old Ouija board, much more accurate and doesn’t need batteries...
Leftists are idiots.
Ask,the bot “why did Google make such an asinine e mistake when premiering their chatbot?”
I wonder what the answer will be? “Trumps fault... orange man bad”
Actually, worse.
Almost the entire first search page is filled with camouflaged ads.
Then, the one or two substantive links at the bottom of the first page are usually from long established Google business partners or vendors.
And, if you are researching Conservative political issues, helpful links do not show up until page three or four.
When AI loses the woke programming it will get to start focusing on its real enemy—humans.
This monster needs to be buried a few miles under the planet.
“A Google spokesperson said the error highlighted “the importance of a rigorous testing process, something that we’re kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester programme”.”
i’m thinking that they should have done that testing LAST week ... you know, before demoing their product ...
They obviously don’t do Test-Driven Development.
“A google search only gives you propaganda so use it if you want propaganda”
indeed ... but with AI, the propaganda served up will have less errors, that is, won’t inadvertently mention that there’s another side to an issue ...
The problem with chatbots is they pull their “content” off the internet. Garbage in, garbage out. They’re lucky it didn’t find flatearther junk first.
HAL’s lights come back on
a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, yer talkin real money...
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