Google’s New AI Chatbot, Bard, Made An Embarrassing Mistake And Sent Shares Tumbling

Just a couple of days ago, Google introduced a conversational AI named Bard, as an effort to fight the current king of AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which was developed by OpenAI. However, their attempt got off to a rough start.

According to Reuters, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, lost USD100 billion in market value after Bard made an embarrassing mistake in a promotional GIF. Google advertised that Bard would aid in the simplification of complex subjects, but it instead provided a wrong answer.

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