AI mistakes: Blame it on the inaccuracies in the input datasets. * Alphabet's sh…
AI mistakes: Blame it on the inaccuracies in the input datasets. * Alphabet's shares dropped by $100 billion after Google's AI chatbot, Bard, shared inaccurate information in a promotional video, and a company event failed to impress. During a live event, Bard stumbled, prompting Google to pull the live stream, which fueled concerns that the tech giant is losing ground to its rival, Microsoft. Reuters reported that Bard credited the James Webb Space Telescope for taking the first pictures of a planet outside the solar system. In reality, the first pictures were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. The incident highlights the importance of fact-checking before training AI models. * Not to be left behind Meta launched BlenderBot, a prototype conversational AI that soon told journalists it had deleted its Facebook account after learning about the company’s privacy scandals. “Since deleting Facebook my life has been much better,” it said. (oh oh) * In 2016 Microsoft apologized after a Twitter chatbot, Tay, started generating racist and sexist messages. It was forced to shut down the bot after users tweeted hateful remarks at Tay, which it then parroted. Its posts included likening feminism to cancer and suggesting the Holocaust did not happen. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella told CNBC that AI-powered search is the biggest thing to happen to the company in the nine years he’s been CEO.