Google employees tasked with testing the company’s ChatGPT rival Bard weren’t very impressed by the AI chatbot. According to Bloomberg, after testing the bot, employees described Bard as “cringeworthy” and called it a “pathological liar.” One employee even said that some responses Bard generated, such as tips on how to land a plane, could potentially lead to serious injury or fatality.
Despite their criticism, Google still decided to launch a beta version of Bard in March. However, users weren’t much more impressed by Bard, claiming that it spread misinformation, plagiarized articles, and even got some basic rules of math wrong. When contacted for comment, Brian Gabriel, a spokesperson for Google, said that the company is “continuing to invest in the teams that work on applying our AI Principles to our technology.”
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John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist, businessman, and teacher, who served as Chairman of the Alphabet Board of Directors and was the 10th President of Stanford University, a position he held from 2000 to 2016. Hennessy started his career as an academic, teaching at Cornell and Stanford, before joining MIPS as Chief Technology Officer. He eventually became the company’s CEO and lead the company to an initial public offering, and subsequently to its acquisition by Silicon Graphics in 1992. Hennessy stayed with Silicon Graphics and eventually led the effort to create the MIPS V, the company’s fifth-generation microprocessor.
