Google's parent company, Alphabet, took a massive hit on the stock market after its new artificial intelligence technology, Bard, made a costly mistake in a recent ad demo. Oops, that's more embarrassing than accidentally showing your boxer-shorts on a Zoom call. I'd take that anytime! The company lost $100 billion in market value in just one day after the blunder. This was a tough reception for Bard, which was launched as a competitor to Microsoft's ChatGPT and was meant to be the company's answer to the highly successful chatbot.

But what exactly did Bard do to deserve this market beating? Well, in an attempt to show off its search skills, Google put out an ad that described Bard as a "launchpad for curiosity" and a "tool to simplify complex topics". A GIF was even included to showcase Bard's impressive knowledge.

The question was simple enough: "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?" And Bard, being the AI prodigy it was marketed as, fired off a list of bullet points with confidence. But hold the space phone, there was one tiny problem - Bard claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope had taken the first pictures of exoplanets, a.k.a. planets outside of our solar system.

Well, that's one way to get a child's imagination going - with a whopper of a lie! But in all seriousness, this little mistake cost Alphabet a pretty penny and left Bard with some explaining to do. Maybe next time, Google should stick to sending astronauts to space and leave the intergalactic imaging to the professionals.

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