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.”

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- With inputs from agencies