The popularity of ChatGPT has forced two of the biggest tech giants to announce their own offerings. On the one hand we have Microsoft that presented an AI-powered version of the Bing search engine and on the other Google that revealed the real and possibly more powerful rival of ChatGPT, Bard. On paper, Bard sounds and looks better, because it doesn’t just quote a text that could easily be used as an article, report, or something similar, but provides detailed information on the topic and in the future will document it with sources from the Internet, and not only.
However, Bard already made his first mistake and was even published by Google itself. In the example presented by Google, a parent asks Bard for information about the new discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope in order to convey it to a nine-year-old child. The AI’s response is informative and detailed, but soon some astronomers pointed out that the AI made a very important mistake. Bard said the James Webb Space Telescope took the first photo of a planet outside the solar system. But, as astronomers reported, the first photo of this nature dates back to 2004. In fact, using the classic Google search, they proved that the search engine of the technological giant has the right answer at its disposal. Google Bard may be making its first public appearance, but this misstep and the dimension it took on social media didn’t sit well with investors.
According to a report, Alphabet – the parent of Google – saw its shares fall by 8%, which translates into a loss of $100 billion in market value. The problem wasn’t so much Bard’s fault, after all AIs are expected to make such ill-advised mistakes. In this case, and correspondingly with ChatGPT, the issue is that these systems use external sources of information and such mistakes can lead to the spread of fake news, something that companies have been trying to combat by all means for years.
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