Google Stock Tumbles Nearly 8% After Bard Ad Shows Inaccurate Answer, AI Race Heats Up

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Alphabet (GOOGL) tumbled Wednesday after Google's parent company published a new ad for its Bard artificial intelligence chatbot that offered an incorrect answer.

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Google posted a video on Twitter demonstrating the "experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA," the company wrote.

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LaMDA is Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications, which applies machine learning to chatbots and allows them to engage in "free-flowing" conversations, the company says.

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In the advertisement, Bard is prompted with the question, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year old about?"

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Bard quickly rattles off two correct answers. But its final response was inaccurate.

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Bard wrote that the telescope took the very first pictures of a planet outside our solar system. In fact, the first pictures of these "exoplanets" were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, according to NASA records.

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Google touted the new tech at an event in Paris on Wednesday, where it announced plans to roll out AI-powered search results and maps, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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The new feature will generate lengthy text responses to complex questions, similar to ChatGPT. And Google will launch the feature when it is confident in the quality of answers, the company says.

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