Google staff argue that the launch of BardAI was ‘rushed’ and “botched,” triggering an AI war.

Google is incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology into Search as Microsoft’s ChatGPT integration with Bing and the Edge browser challenge its online supremacy. And in the same route, Google witnessed that its employees are allegedly criticizing Company’s leadership, including CEO Sundar Pichai, for how the Bard news was handled.

In response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google recently added LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), their latest AI chatbot, to the Google search engine. The “Bard” is the name of Google’s chatbot. But many appear to have issues with the current edition and have labeled its introduction as “rushed”, “botched” and “comically short-sighted”.

Some series of memes targeting the ‘Bard’.

Employees, according to accounts, flooded the company’s internal forum, Memegen, with memes in response to the revelation. Some were direct critiques thrown at CEO Sundar Pichai, calling launch and layoffs “myopic” and begging him to have “a long-term vision”.

Other popular memes flying around the site portrayed Google’s logo in a trash fire and there were numerous upvoted posts, which chastised the management for being “comically short-sighted and un-Googley”.

Another joke suggested, “rushing Bard to market in a frenzy justified the market’s worry about us”. A former Google engineer tweeted that the corporation was not taking the launch seriously. He noted that the event was hosted in Paris rather than at Google’s headquarters and that the CEO was not present.

The blunder of ‘Bard’.

After making a factual blunder in a recently released promotional video, critics may be correct. Alphabet Inc’s stock dropped roughly 9% following the video incident. The promotional film caused Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company, to lose more than $100 billion in market value.

The movie in question provided an erroneous response to James Webb Space Telescope discoveries, and mistakenly ascribed the first images of a planet outside of Earth’s solar system to the James Webb Space Telescope. This is a devastating blunder for a product that Google hopes would cement its position as the world’s leading internet search engine.

Many Google employees were eager to point out that the recent layoffs had sent the stock up by over 3%, but that following the Bard AI promotional film, it plummeted by nearly 9%.

What exactly are these AI technologies that are causing such a stir throughout the world?

Massive Language Models, such as Google’s Bard and ChatGPT, enable ‘artificial intelligence‘ to produce content on demand in seconds by trawling large data sets. These generative AI programs can generate poetry, jokes, corporate communications, business strategies, modify computer code, create academic articles, and even creative fiction in the manner of any author, from Joyce to Dostoevsky to Shakespeare. However, the produced information is frequently riddled with factual mistakes.

For example- When a user asked ChatGPT who Sam Bankman-Fried was while writing this piece, it replied, “Sam Bankman-Fried is recognized for his knowledge of financial markets and his successful algorithmic trading as a career. And hence, one can elaborate that the product is giving out-of-date responses. It showed nothing about his recent case of cryptocurrency bankruptcy.

Fact-checking every response from ChatGPT and Bard might become so time-consuming that these solutions are no longer worth the work needed to assure correctness.

The future of AI.

AI, like space exploration some decades ago, is the next undiscovered region. In contrast to space exploration, the speed of AI innovation has accelerated in a non-linear approach. While there are still hurdles in exploiting enormous datasets and models with billions of parameters, the way ChatGPT has ‘gone viral’ is certainly a tipping point in this AI race.

Why did Google’s Bard fall so badly?

If Microsoft’s integration of AI tools with internet search engines leads to a global paradigm change in the way people search online, it might have a substantial impact on Google’s existing revenue-based advertisement business model. Google’s bungled Bard presentation reveals that it is reacting hastily to Microsoft’s inclusion of AI into its Bing search engine.

The corporation moved quickly to mitigate the reputational harm caused by the chat-incorrect bot’s response. In the aftermath, Google deflected criticism by emphasizing the importance of its “Trusted Tester” program, as well as the need for other artificial intelligence products to go through a similar quality control approach to ensure accuracy and dependability.

The last call.

OpenAI, a company backed by Microsoft for around $10 billion, launched the software in November that has pleased users and gained attention in Silicon Valley circles for its amazingly accurate and well-written solutions to basic inquiries. Google has been hard on the trail of this OpenAI. This event has caused Google to hurry in recent weeks to catch up on Search, which resulted in a hasty release and the humiliating gaffe of publishing the erroneous answer during their Bard demo. Hope this incident gives a message to every business that makes the product completely competitive before launching it into the market just for the sake of facing competition.

edited and proofread by nikita sharma