During a live event on Wednesday, Google demonstrated the latest AI upgrades to its search engine, Maps, and more. A Google executive briefly showed off the tech giant's recently unveiled Bard chatbot. In one demo, he showed how Bard could generate a response about the pros and cons of buying an EV. More: - Google SVP Prabhakar Raghavan, who led the demo, showed how Google's generative AI technology could summarize web information in searches.
- He noted that the AI's responses are meant to help organize complex information and deliver multiple viewpoints.
- Its responses are considered to be "NORA" or "no one right answer," according to Raghavan.
- Besides the demo, Google did not offer much new information about Bard, its conversational AI bot that's a competitor to ChatGPT.
- Google is now group testing Bard, which is expected to be released publicly in several weeks.
Bard error: - Also on Wednesday, it was reported that Google's Bard made an error, which may have caused company shares to close down 7% today.
- In the online demo earlier this week, a user asked Bard, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?"
- In one of its responses, Bard claimed the Telescope "took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system."
- As noted by astronomers, the first image of an exoplanet was actually taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in 2004.
More Google AI projects: - During Wednesday's event, the tech giant unveiled other AI features in its products.
- It showed how its "Immersive View" tool in Google Maps uses AI to combine aerial and street images to generate digital 3D models of areas. As of today, Immersive View is available to users in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
- Google also announced that an AI-powered multisearch feature is coming to mobile device users globally. Available for Google Lens users, it lets people search using both images and text.
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Google Labs executive Clay Bavor said he is departing the company to form an AI startup with ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. In a LinkedIn post today, Bavor said he and Taylor, his longtime friend, "share an obsession" with AI's recent advancements and are "excited to build a new company to apply AI to solve some of the most important problems in business." More: - He did not disclose further details about the project, saying only that they "will have more to share once we get started."
- Bavor, who is currently VP of Labs, Google's forward-looking bets segment, will depart the company in March after 18 years.
- Prior to becoming Labs VP in November 2021, Bavor was VP of Google AR/VR, leading related projects such as Google Lens and Project Starline, a 3D video chat booth.
- Taylor stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce in January. At the time, he said he had decided to return to his "entrepreneurial roots."
- Before Salesforce, Taylor founded and ran Quip, a collaborative productivity software suite acquired by Salesforce for $750M in 2016. He was also CTO at Facebook, now Meta Platforms, from 2010 to 2012.
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Microsoft's Bing is now among the top 10 free iOS apps in Apple's App Store. Bing has skyrocketed in popularity after Microsoft announced yesterday that it's bringing advanced GPT-based AI technology to the search engine. More: - According to TechCrunch, Bing app downloads have surged by at least 10 times since yesterday.
- As of Wednesday, it was the second-most popular free app in the App Store's Productivity category, trailing only Gmail.
- Previously, Bing was ranked 160th among iOS productivity apps, according to TechCrunch.
- On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it is integrating a large language model into a "new Bing" to aid in search, content creation, and answering questions in a conversational way.
- Users can join a waitlist to request full access to the AI-powered Bing. There is also a limited preview available now.
Edge app: - Microsoft is also incorporating AI into a new version of the Edge web browser.
- As of Wednesday, the free Edge iOS app had climbed to No. 3 on Apple's App Store chart in the Utilities category.
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Online misinformation tracker NewsGuard has issued a warning about false information that could spread through the use of ChatGPT. In a recent test of the AI chatbot, Newsguard analysts found that it was capable of creating disinformation on a variety of topics when commanded to do so. They sounded an alarm about the use of ChatGPT by bad actors to automate misinformation campaigns. More: - The disinformation covered topics ranging from immigration to China's mistreatment of the Uyghur minority ethnic group and the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
- NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz told the NY Times that ChatGPT will be "the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the internet."
- The AI tool can be used to craft fake narratives about events. For example, the analysts successfully prompted it to write about the 2018 Parkland, Florida, mass school shooting in the style of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
- Overall, ChatGPT was able to deliver what the analysts called "eloquent, false, and misleading claims" about major topics roughly 80% of the time.
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