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Martin Coulter
LONDON (Reuters) – Google (NASDAQ: ) has released an online ad in which its long-awaited AI chatbot BARD gives incorrect answers.
The tech giant posted a short GIF video of BARD in action via Twitter, describing the chatbot as a “curiosity engine” that would help simplify complex topics.
The ad asks BARD, “What new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discoveries can I tell my 9-year-old about?”
BARD responds with a series of answers, including one suggesting that JWST was used to capture the first images of planets outside Earth’s solar system, or exoplanets. This is incorrect.
The first exoplanet images were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, which was confirmed by NASA.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Monday, he announced the launch of Bard.
At the time of writing, the ad has been viewed more than 880,000 times on Twitter.