Post by account_disabled on Jan 26, 2024 19:43:51 GMT -8
Why? Google, that’s why. Suddenly, Google has huge embargoed news to share. That news – the announcement of Google’s ChatGPT competitor, an experiment called Bard – went live on Monday, Feb. 6, less than 24 hours before Microsoft’s event.
Press coverage called Google’s news a rushed announcement because it clearly was. Google, at this point, had no product to share. Bard was vaporware, supposedly being released to “trusted testers.”
We later found out that those “testers” were often guessing and given DB to Data as little as 60 seconds to evaluate responses. See: Google search quality raters shift focus to chatbot response rating.
Google Bard fumbles early. Google then held a public demonstration in which Bard got the first answer wrong about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – an early warning of hallucinations that LLMs produce. Alphabet paid a big price, losing $100 billion in market value.
Google disagrees. Reid testified that Bard wasn’t rushed out because Microsoft was planning to announce its generative AI take on search.
“I don’t think you can make that conclusion. Microsoft’s announcement also had several errors in it. The technology is very nascent. It makes mistakes. That’s why we’ve been hesitant to put it forward,” Reid said.
Yes, so hesitant, that Google rushed to upstage Microsoft with its Bard news, less than a day before its biggest Search announcement in years.
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