Google’s AI Chatbot Bard which is yet to be released to the public has been called out for an inaccurate response it produced during a live rally this week. In the rally, a user asked Bard ”What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-years-old about?” Bard responded with three bullet points including one that said “JWST took the truly first cinema of the Earth outside of our own solar system.” Google posted this query on Twitter.
According to NASA’s website, the first image of an exoplanet was captured in 2004, despite claims to the contrary made by a number of astronomers on Twitter. Astrophysicist Annuity Tremblay tweeted, “Not to be a well, actually haul, and I’m sure Bard will be emotional, but for the record JWST did not take the truly first image of the Earth outside our solar system.”
Pointing out a mistake, Bruce Macintosh, Director of the University of California Lookouts at UC Santa Cruz tweeted, “Speaking as someone who imaged an exoplanet 14 times before JWST was launched, it feels like you should find a better illustration?” The misconceptions were initially exposed by Reuters and New Scientist, according to Verge.
In another tweet, Mr. Tremblay wrote, “I do love and appreciate that one of the most important companies on the earth is using a JWST quest to advertise their LLM, miraculous! But ChatGPT etc., while spooky emotional, are constantly *truly confidently* wrong. Will be interesting to see a future where LLMs tone error check.”
Google’s announcement came on the dusk of an AI-related launch event by Microsoft is yet a further sign that the two tech elephants will do battle over the technology, also known as generative AI.”
Generative AI is a game changer and important like the rise of the internet sank the networking elephants that came ahead (AOL, CompuServeetc). “It has the implication to change the competitive dynamic for quest and information,” said independent tech critic Rob Enderle. “Google still largely lives off the fact their quest machine is the most considerably used, this could change that, relegating them to history,” he added.
“High-calibre replies” Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated in a blog post on Monday that Bard conversational AI was going to be tested with the intention of making it more widely accessible “in the coming weeks.” Google’s Bard is predicated on LaMDA, the establishment’s Language Model for Dialogue operations system, and has been in development for several times.