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What is the cost of an error made by AI chatbot? (Answer: 8% of Google's shares)
2023-02-09
[Technology.org] It took just a single incorrect answer from Google’s new AI chatbot named Bard to drive the company’s shares down by 8%.

The incorrect answer, in fact, was shown in the ad that was first released on Monday and was intended to demonstrate one of the most important capabilities of the new artificial intelligence-based platform.

The AI chatbot error was first publicized by Reuters. The question that was answered by the Bard chatbot was about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system.

The ad consisted of a short GIF video demonstrating the operation of Bard. The error was noticed a few hours before the official Bard’s launch event in Paris.

Today, Alphabet’s (Google parent company) shares were traded 8% lower compared to their earlier price. This means a loss of about $100 billion in terms of total value.
Posted by:Thruter Gloluger6393

#5  ^ Ooooh, nicely done, SteveS
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-09 20:18  

#4  I tried training a language model on Kamala's speeches, but the computer it was running on kept going down.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-02-09 20:17  

#3  Wait, whut? I spoke Kamala word-salad to it and it started to smoke?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-09 19:53  

#2  It's an effin' chatbot, not an interface to a database or search engine. The fact that you believe it means you failed the Turing Test.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-02-09 19:51  

#1  which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system

Voyager, looking back, unless they were referring to planets which were 'outside the Earth's solar system'.

Maybe the article was written by an AI bot.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-02-09 10:26  

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