Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly instructed Googlers to spend up to four hours testing ChatGPT-like chatbot Bard.
Google’s first demo of its ChatGPT-like service Bard cost the company $100 billion in market cap, in a very public display of incompetency from the AI product. The chatbot made an innocent mistake when providing an answer in the conversational tone of ChatGPT. One that real humans caught immediately. That error tanked the stock by 7%, in a different display of incompetency. Those trading Google stock should have known that Bard can’t be any better than ChatGPT regarding accuracy. The generative AI tech isn’t quite there yet.
But Google won’t stop fixing the chatbot. That is exactly what we expect from a company whose AI products might be superior to OpenAIs. The latest Google development points to new instructions from Sundar Pichai to employees. Googlers are to spend between two and four hours testing Bard.
After Bard’s big public failure, some Googlers reportedly criticized the company’s abrupt push. But if a purported memo from Sundar Pichai is accurate, Google plans to invest thousands of hours into fixing Bard.
The company-wide email that Business Insider saw asked all employees to take between two to four hours of their day to test Google Bard.
