Google's Bard Already Made A Fact Error — In Its Wake, the Company's Value Dropped By $100 BillionChatGPT and similar technologies are rife with issues from biases to factual errors, according to reports.

By盖伯瑞尔le Bienasz

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Courtesy company
Google's Bard.

On Monday, Google debuted its artificial intelligence chatbot named Bard to what the company said was "trusted testers" — but its first public example had a fact error,according to NPR.

In the wake of the revelation,Google's parent company, Alphabet's, stock dropped about 9%, the outlet added. In other terms, the company lost $100 billion in its value on the public markets.

"This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process, something that we're kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester program," a Google spokesperson told狗万官方via email.

"We'll combine external feedback with our own internal testing to make sure Bard's responses meet a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness in real-world information," the company added.

Bard is a chatbot that gives users answers to search queries, rather than what search engines generally do right now, which is to answer questions with links.

Related:The AI Wars Have Begun: Microsoft Announces ChatGPT Bing Integration After Google Introduces AI Competitor, Bard

In a press release, Google gave an example of Bard answering the question: "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?"

One of its bullet-pointed answers was: "Took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system."

一些社会媒体用户指出,佤邦s not true — it was actually done at The European Southern Observatory in 2004.

ChatGPT and similar technologies can be rife with issues from biases tofactual errors,New York Timesnoted.

Artificial intelligence has somewhat recently come into its own, giving users the ability to do things like writing code or poems without much effort, per the outlet.

In the fall, OpenAI exploded onto the scene with a publicly available tool, ChatGPT, that could spit out cogent answers to questions and even write college essays.

The tool's popularity seemed to push the tech giants — Google released Bard and Microsoft launched its new integration with ChatGPT, also announced this week.

Bard is still being tested, though, as the company said in its announcement, and Microsoft's is in preview mode. Some have predicted that the technologywill end search as we know it.

"This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category,"said the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, at the press conference on its AI innovations this week.

Wavy Line
盖伯瑞尔le Bienasz is a staff writer at Entrepreneur. She previously worked at Insider and Inc. Magazine.

Editor's Pick

Related Topics

Social Media

How This 18-Year-Old TikTok Star Built a Business With 5 Million Followers

TikToker Ryan Shakes shares how he built a devoted and engaged following.

Business News

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's Family 'Stranded' at Boston Airport During 9-Hour Delay: 'We Made Quite a Home Here'

The actors spent $600 on pillows and blankets while waiting for their flight.

Growing a Business

Senior Executives Are Falling Behind The Digital Curve — Here's What It Takes to Stay Ahead.

Learn how to stay ahead of the digital curve with the top areas of digital transformation that all corporate leaders should know.

Business News

Kevin O'Leary Slams Anheuser-Busch CEO's Listening Tour, Says It Won't Stop Bud Light Backlash for One Huge Reason

Anheuser-Busch U.S. CEO Brendan Whitworth announced plans to hear consumers out this summer.

Business News

Netflix is Hiring an AI-Focused Role—and the Starting Salary is up to $900,000

The streaming giant is looking for a leader in its machine learning department.