Google AI Chatbot Bard Flubs an Answer in Ad
Google published an online advertisement in which its much-anticipated AI chatbot Bard delivered an inaccurate answer.
Introduced on Feb. 6, Bard was touted in an online ad by Google that ran in the company’s Twitter feed.
In the tweet, Google described the chatbot as a “launchpad for curiosity” that would help simplify complex topics—and included a short GIF video ad of Bard in action.
In the ad, Bard is given the prompt: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (or JWST), can I tell my 9-year old about?”
Bard responds with a number of answers, including one suggesting the JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system, or exoplanets….