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Google's AI chatbot Bard gives wrong information in ad

Published 2023-02-08, 10:56 a/m
Updated 2023-02-08, 10:56 a/m

By Sam Boughedda 

During a demonstration at a launch event this week, Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) new AI-powered chatbot Bard is said to have made an error when answering a question.

The AI search assistant, a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT, was unveiled on Tuesday, but in an animated image of Bard in action, it gives a wrong answer to a question about new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The animated image, distributed by Google, shows the chatbot being asked by a user, "what new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?"

In one of the replies, Bard says, "JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system."

However, this is inaccurate, with Reuters stating that the correct answer is that "the first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, as confirmed by NASA."

Even so, Google's own featured snippet, at the time of writing, still states it is the James Webb Space Telescope.

The reported inaccuracy may present questions about the accuracy of search engines and AI chatbot-generated answers to questions.

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