Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

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Google responded to Microsoft’s ChatGPT by launching Bard, its own AI chatbot. But Bard produced a factual error in an ad demo, plummeting the company’s market value by $100 billion.

An accompanying GIF prompts Bard with the question,"What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?" The chatbot responds with a few bullet points, including the claim that the telescope took the very first pictures of"exoplanets," or planets outside of earth's solar system.

"These discoveries can spark a child's imagination about the infinite wonders of the universe," Bard says. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. Built using our large language models and drawing on information from the web, it’s a launchpad for curiosity and can help simplify complex topics →

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