In its first demo Google’s AI chatbot Bard makes factual error
Paris, February 9: Google on late Wednesday announced its AI
chatbot Bard slew of features powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), recently
there was a mistake in an ad caused its share price tank of $100 billion . Google is considered
as the search engine giant and it is rushing to space after the bot ChatGPT.
After the mistake the bot isn’t off to a great start, it made a factual error
in its very first demo.
There is a GIF that flooded Google shows Bard answering the
question, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell
my 9 year old about?” Bard offers three bullet points in return, including one
that states that the telescope “took the very first pictures of a planet
outside of our own solar system.”
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There are a number of astronomers on Twitter pointed out
that this is incorrect and that the first image of an exoplanet was taken in
2004 — as stated here on NASA’s website.
“Not to be a ~well, actually~ jerk, and I’m sure Bard will
be impressive, but for the record: JWST did not take ‘the very first image of a
planet outside our solar system,’” tweeted astrophysicist Grant Tremblay.
Director of University of California Observatories at UC
Santa Cruz, Bruce Macintosh later pointed out the mistake and tweeted that “Speaking as someone who imaged an exoplanet
14 years before JWST was launched, it feels like you should find a better
example?”
In a follow-up tweet, Tremblay added, “I do love and
appreciate that one of the most powerful companies on the planet is using a
JWST search to advertise their LLM. Awesome! But ChatGPT etc., while spooky
impressive, are often *very confidently* wrong. Will be interesting to see a
future where LLMs self error check.”
After it made the factual error in first demo, a Google
spokesperson said, “This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing
process, something that we’re kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester
program. 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.”