AI blunder is expensive for Google: chatbot invents facts
A wrong answer to an example question cost Google tens of billions on Wall Street. The price of shares plummeted 8 percent when it turned out that an advertising message for the new chatbot perfectly illustrates the limitations of this new artificial intelligence.
Google introduced the new Bard service this week in response to a similar initiative by Microsoft that integrated the advanced text generator ChatGPT into its search service Bing. In both cases, artificial intelligence is used to present search results in a coherent story.
This should make it possible to get detailed answers to specific queries. For example, you can ask for travel tips for a five-day trip to London or a summary of what's trending on Twitter. However, Bard went wrong when asked, “What can I tell my 9-year-old about the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope”.
In addition to the correct answers that the telescope had photographed super-old galaxies, for example, Bard also claimed that the telescope “took the first pictures of a planet outside our own solar system”. However, photos of such exoplanets were taken by the Very Large Telescope as early as 2004.
