The demo includes an inaccuracy about the James Webb Space Telescope, underscoring the misinformation risks of using Bard and ChatGPT to refine search.
As Google’s AI-powered Bard prepares to compete against ChatGPT, don’t count on the chatbot programs always being right: A recent demo of Bard shows it spouting inaccurate information.
Bard, which Google announced on Monday, is slated to arrive in the coming weeks. To promote the AI program, the company posted a GIF on social media that shows Bard answering a question about what new discoveries NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made.
The program lists three discoveries the space telescope made in an easy-to-read, bulleted format. Hence, through Bard, a user can quickly learn information, without having to scroll through a long list of search results to find the applicable site.
The only problem? Astronomers were quick to point out one of the listed facts that Bard generated is wrong. The program erroneously claims the James Webb Space Telescope “took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.
