Alphabet lost about $100 billion of its market value as markets closed yesterday, Wednesday, according to a report by Reuters, due to false information provided by the chatbot based on artificial intelligence (Bard) that appeared in the promotional video published by Google during its press conference announcing it. About (cool) last Tuesday.
The video shows an example of questions that the robot can answer, as the question is asked: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old son about?”
The answer came in the form of simplified points as requested by the question, except that it contained an error, as it was mentioned in one of the points that (James Webb) took the first picture of a planet outside our solar system. But people quickly picked up on this mistake, including astronomers who posted tweets expressing their dissatisfaction with the program. Google because the first image of this kind was taken in 2004, which is known information and documented on the NASA website.
While the loss of investor confidence in the accuracy of search results based on artificial intelligence from Google led to a significant decline in its market share, Microsoft shares rose by 3%, and the company had announced a day earlier about its own model of artificial intelligence that it intends to integrate with its Bing search engine.
Both Google and Microsoft intend to integrate their new models with their search engines, so that the user can ask questions in natural language to get a direct and short answer that appears alongside the traditional search results.
Many followers have expressed their fear of the inaccuracy of the results provided by the artificial intelligence robots. After the search engines were seen as reliable sources for obtaining information, many feared the possibility of obtaining incorrect information about their search terms.
In its initial reaction, Google said in a statement to The Verge website that this “illustrates the importance of rigorous testing, which is what we started to do within the Trusted Tester program,” referring to the company’s program in which it allows a group of users to try out its new services and express opinions about them. The company spokesperson added that it will collect feedback from users' experiences and their own with the aim of improving the program.
And Google had mentioned in its post announcing the launch of its smart robot, that (Bard) is currently working on a light version of its language model, which is a smaller version and less consumption of computing power, which helps Google to provide the service to a larger number of users to obtain feedback and suggestions in an efficient manner. faster.
It is worth noting that each of the new versions of Google engines and its competitor Microsoft is still available in a narrow trial and is not yet available to all users.