Another fake AI

This is stated in the Bloomberg report, which cites interviews with 18 current and former Google employees and screenshots of internal messages. In these discussions, one employee noted that Bard often gave users dangerous advice on things like landing or scuba diving.

Another said: “Bard is worse than useless: please don’t throw it”. Bloomberg, even the company “rejected a risk assessment” by the internal security team who said the system was not ready for general use. Despite everything, Google bosses decided to open early access to the bot in March.

The company frequently touts its work on security and ethics in AI, but has long been criticized for putting business and money first instead. The report shows how Google is pushing ethical concerns to the fore to keep up with its competitors like Microsoft and OpenAI.

Advocates of the technology disagree with the criticism. In their opinion, development of any such system requires public testing, and the known harm from chatbots has so far been minimal. They produce toxic content and provide misleading information, but so do countless other sources on the internet. However, it should be noted that while people tend to blindly trust neural networks as if they know everything, pointing the user to a bad source of information is not the same as providing that information directly from artificial intelligence. Google’s competitors in this market are no less at risk, but the difference is that they are not leaders in the search business.