From the New York Post, April 19:
Google reportedly moved forward with the troubled launch of its AI chatbot Bard last month despite internal warnings from employees who described the tool as a “pathological liar” prone to spewing out responses riddled with false information that can “result in serious injury or death.”
Current and former employees allege that Google ignored its own AI ethics during a desperate effort to catch up to competitors, such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Google’s push to develop Bard reportedly ramped up late last year after ChatGPT’s success prompted top brass to declare a “competitive code red,” according to the outlet.
Microsoft’s planned integration of ChatGPT into its Bing search engine is widely seen as a threat to Google’s dominant online search business.
Google rolled out Bard to US users last month in what it has described as an “experiment.”
Google rolled out Bard to US users last month in what it has described as an “experiment.”
However, many Google workers voiced concerns before the rollout when the company tasked them with testing out Bard to identify potential bugs or issues – a process known in tech circles as “dogfooding.”
Bard testers flagged concerns that the chatbot was spitting out information ranging from inaccurate to potentially dangerous....
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That is a considerably different story from that which Alphabet's CEO was spinning in Embrace
Your Hallucinating ChatBot: "Sundar Pichai Opens Up About Google Bard's
Trippy Troubles: 'No One In The Field Has Yet Solved Hallucination
Problems'".
