Google shares sold off this week after its answer to ChatGPT failed to impress.
, or more than 6% of its overall workforce. Pichai said the layoffs were necessary due to worsening economic conditions and would better position Google to pursue development of AI technology and other priorities.
“Firing 12k people rises the stock by 3%, one rushed AI presentation drops it by 8%,” said the meme, which featured a photo of actor Nicholas Cage with a smile on his face.The Post has reached out to Google for comment on the internal backlash. Earlier this week, analysts noted that Google’s unveiling of Bard was short on details about how the company planned to integrate the chatbot into its search engine. Microsoft has already rolled out a ChatGPT integration for its “Bing” browser.Google’s launch event for the Bard chatbot drew a lukewarm reaction.During the event, Bard gave a wrong answer to a query included in the company ad showcasing how the chatbot functions.
The example included in the gif video showed a user asking Bard, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” The chatbot responded by claiming that JWST was “used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system.” The answer was inaccurate. The first pictures of so-called “exoplanets” were actually taken by the
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