It has become increasingly common these days to have chatbots that are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which I believe was the beginning of this process, has almost reshaped and changed the entire internet as we know it. Google recently announced its own chatbot, Bard, which it hopes will help it stay on top of this fast-moving trend. In spite of the fact that many people expect ChatGPT to be replaced by Bard, according to the latest reports, some Googlers aren’t pleased about the announcement of Bard’s ‘rushed’ replacement. Here are the details…
Some Googlers reportedly aren’t happy about Bard’s ‘rushed’ announcement
As a result of the incorrect answers that Bard, a new AI chatbot from Google, provided during a promotional event, 100 billion dollars was lost. Investors were not only upset by this situation, but also many Google employees were upset by it as well. The employees of the company have expressed their displeasure with Bard’s performance on the company’s internal message boards, and some have directed their criticism at the CEO, Sundar Pichai, for the company’s performance.
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One of the presenters at Google’s search event forgot the phone that was going to be used to demonstrate one of Bard’s features, adding to the negative response, and some of them were apparently unaware that the event was occurring. An employee of the firm wrote a highly upvoted post on the company’s internal message boards, describing the Bard launch and layoffs as “rushed, botched, and myopic.” Other employees compared the past year at Google to the mess of a dumpster fire, and expressed concerns about the company’s image.
I understand that Pichai and Jeff Dean, the head of the AI division at Google, expressed their concerns in December about the risks associated with the release of an AI tool too early. The company, however, seemed to change its tune after OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool became widely available to the public, and enlisted the help of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to help plan the organization’s response to OpenAI’s tool.
Bard, the chatbot rival to ChatGPT, won’t be widely available for several weeks, but in light of the fact that Microsoft plans to disrupt web search with its own chatbot, it is not surprising that Google decided to showcase Bard earlier than expected, even if it was a little earlier than expected. However, despite the initial setbacks, it remains to be seen how the chatbot will perform as well as whether it will be well-received by the general public once it is released.
