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Google Bard advert shows new AI search tool making a factual error
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AI chatbot Google Bard has been caught making a mistake in its answers to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries – in an official Google ad - heightening concerns that such AIs aren’t ready to be integrated in search engines

that there is a risk such AI chatbots could give inaccurate responses as if they were fact, because they craft their output based on the statistical availability of information rather than accuracy.

Now an advert on Twitter from Google has shown Bard responding to the query “what new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” with incorrect results . A screengrab of an advert on Twitter for Google Bard on 8 Feb 2023 revealing an error the AI has made in its response

The third suggestion given by Bard was “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system”. Butat the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics pointed out that this wasn’t true. “I’m sure Bard will be impressive, but for the record: JWST did not take “the very first image of a planet outside our solar system”. the first image was instead done by Chauvin et al. with the VLT/NACO using adaptive optics,”

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