To exhibit this, the GIF reveals Bard answering the query, “What new discoveries from the James Webb House Telescope can I inform my 9 12 months previous about?” Bard’s solutions, at first look, seem helpful. Nonetheless, observers quickly took observe that the chatbot was delivering inaccurate info. 

“JWST took the very first photos of a planet exterior of our personal photo voltaic system,” Bard mentioned in its reply. 

The truth is, the first picture of an exoplanet was taken in 2004 by the European Southern Observatory’s VLT (Very Giant Telescope).

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Whereas Google’s tweet was nonetheless on-line as of Wednesday morning (and seen by greater than 1 million Twitter customers), Google acknowledged the error in a press release offered to ZDNET. 

“This highlights the significance of a rigorous testing course of, one thing that we’re kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester program,” a Google spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “We’ll mix exterior suggestions with our personal inside testing to ensure Bard’s responses meet a excessive bar for high quality, security, and groundedness in real-world info.”

Whereas Google has mentioned it plans to roll out Bard to most people within the subsequent couple of weeks, the chatbot is initially present process testing by a choose variety of customers. 

In the meantime, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a brand new model of the Bing search engine operating on a next-generation OpenAI massive language mannequin, making it “extra highly effective than ChatGPT” — a conversational chatbot that’s rapidly gaining in reputation. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, additionally lately launched its personal premium model of the chatbot, ChatGPT Plus.