>In the fateful ad that ran on Google’s Twitter feed this week, the company described Bard as “a launchpad for curiosity” and a search tool to “help simplify complex topics.”
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>An accompanying GIF prompts Bard with the question, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” The chatbot responds with a few bullet points, including the claim that the telescope took the very first pictures of “exoplanets,” or planets outside of earth’s solar system.
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>”These discoveries can spark a child’s imagination about the infinite wonders of the universe,” Bard says.
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>But the James Webb Telescope didn’t discover exoplanets. The European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope took the first pictures of those special celestial bodies in 2004, a fact that NASA confirms.
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>Social media users quickly pointed out that the company could’ve fact-checked the exoplanet claim by, well, Googling it.
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>The ad aired just hours before Google’s senior executives touted Bard as the future of the company at a launch event in Paris. By Wednesday, Alphabet shares had slid as much as 9% during trading hours, balancing out by the day’s close.
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>Meanwhile, shares for Microsoft, Google’s rival, rose by 3%. Microsoft announced this week that it would incorporate ChatGPT into products like its Bing search engine. The company has invested $10 billion into OpenAI, the start-up that created ChatGPT.
What the news fails to notice is that the Google stock is still more valuable than just a month ago. (94.34$ when I’m writing this comment vs 88.09$ on 9th january)
A chatbot/large language model is not a truth engine; its primary goal is just to be like a human conversationalist, even if that includes spouting convincing bullshit.
DangerStranger138 says
>In the fateful ad that ran on Google’s Twitter feed this week, the company described Bard as “a launchpad for curiosity” and a search tool to “help simplify complex topics.”
>
>An accompanying GIF prompts Bard with the question, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” The chatbot responds with a few bullet points, including the claim that the telescope took the very first pictures of “exoplanets,” or planets outside of earth’s solar system.
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>”These discoveries can spark a child’s imagination about the infinite wonders of the universe,” Bard says.
>
>But the James Webb Telescope didn’t discover exoplanets. The European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope took the first pictures of those special celestial bodies in 2004, a fact that NASA confirms.
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>Social media users quickly pointed out that the company could’ve fact-checked the exoplanet claim by, well, Googling it.
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>The ad aired just hours before Google’s senior executives touted Bard as the future of the company at a launch event in Paris. By Wednesday, Alphabet shares had slid as much as 9% during trading hours, balancing out by the day’s close.
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>Meanwhile, shares for Microsoft, Google’s rival, rose by 3%. Microsoft announced this week that it would incorporate ChatGPT into products like its Bing search engine. The company has invested $10 billion into OpenAI, the start-up that created ChatGPT.
fromwayuphigh says
Honestly this doesn’t make it easier to look at stock valuation as something more than monkeys making froth by farting in a jacuzzi.
AlexBucks93 says
What the news fails to notice is that the Google stock is still more valuable than just a month ago. (94.34$ when I’m writing this comment vs 88.09$ on 9th january)
wwarnout says
One mistake that we know of.
cthulu0 says
Repeat after me:
A chatbot/large language model is not a truth engine; its primary goal is just to be like a human conversationalist, even if that includes spouting convincing bullshit.
Monster-Mtl says
What a bait headline. Shares don’t drop in the billions.
Sir-Kevly says
This is all the evidence you need to tell that the stock market is one giant ponzi scheme.