Google’s ChatGPT Rival, Bard, Called Out For NASA Webb Space Telescope Error

After being unveiled earlier this week, Google’s AI service Bard is already being known as out for sharing inaccurate info in an illustration meant to indicate off the device’s talents. 

Google on Monday shared an example of Bard answering the query “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” The AI device responds with three bullet factors. The final one incorrectly states that the JWST, which launched in December 2021, took the “very first pictures” of an exoplanet exterior our photo voltaic system. The first picture of an exoplanet was taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2004, based on NASA. 

2/ Bard seeks to mix the breadth of the world’s data with the ability, intelligence, and creativity of our giant language fashions. It attracts on info from the net to offer recent, high-quality responses. Today we’re opening Bard as much as trusted exterior testers. pic.twitter.com/QPy5BcERd6

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 6, 2023

The mistake was called out by astrophysicists on Twitter and reported earlier Wednesday by New Scientist. 

The mistake highlights issues about points like trustworthiness

as Google, Microsoft and others discover new instruments and companies infused with synthetic intelligence. Microsoft on Tuesday introduced a brand new model of Bing search that makes use of the expertise behind OpenAI’s fashionable ChatGPT. OpenAI has emphasised that ChatGPT may give flawed info, and CEO Sam Altman mentioned in December that it could be “a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now.”

For now, Bard continues to be an experiment, and Google says it’s testing the device to make enhancements. 

“This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process, something that we’re kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester program,” mentioned a Google spokesperson in an emailed assertion Wednesday. “We’ll combine external feedback with our own internal testing to make sure Bard’s responses meet a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness in real-world information.”

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