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The Bard Chatbot Is a Big Mistake
Google is rolling out its new Bard conversational AI chat bot. One of the sample questions that Google asked Bard was, what new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope? Can I tell my nine year old about? And Bard responded with three bullet points, one of which said that the very first pictures of a planet outside our solar system were taken by this telescope. A bunch of astronomers quickly noticed that this was mistaken and that the first image of an exoplanet was actually taken in 2004 by a different telescope. After people start noticing this mistake, it has a really dramatic impact. Google's parent company Alphabet lost about $100 billion in market value that day because of the decline in the stock