According to the agency, the share price of Google’s parent company Alphabet fell almost 8% due to a mistake made by the AI-powered chatbot Bard, resulting in a loss of nearly $100 billion in capitalization. Reuters.
It was recorded that the share price traded on the New York Stock Exchange on February 8 decreased to $ 99.37. Bard attributed the false discovery to the James Webb Telescope.
During a live demonstration of a new AI chatbot, “What new discoveries of James Webb can I tell my nine-year-old?” they asked.
The bot gave two correct answers and the third incorrect, saying that this telescope took the first pictures of exoplanets or planets outside the solar system.
According to NASA, the first real image of the exoplanet appeared much earlier, in 2004. And the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (Very Large Telescope, or VLT) was the author of the image.
The agency attributed the bot error to Google’s rush to present the project on the backdrop of competition with other market players such as OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Bard service previously based In LaMDA, Google’s own language model. At the same time, Microsoft announced the integration of ChatGPT into the Bing search engine.
Source: Gazeta
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