Two participants in the Bard community on Discord shared details of the July-October chatroom discussions with Bloomberg, in which Dominik Rabiej, a senior product manager at Bard, said he “doesn’t trust” answers generated by the big language model and suggested that people should only use it for “creative” or “creative” purposes. Dominik Rabiej, senior product manager at Bard, said during the discussion that he “doesn’t trust” the answers generated by the big language model and suggested that people should only use Bard for “creativity,” “brainstorming,” etc. Rabiej also said that using Bard for programming “would be a good choice” — because people will inevitably want to validate. Rabiej also says that using Bard for programming “is also a good choice” — because one inevitably has to verify that the code works.

Also this month, Rabiej emphasized the importance of the new “double-check reply” button in Bard. This feature is said to highlight “possibly incorrect” content in orange. He also reiterated that Bard doesn’t really understand the text it’s getting, but simply responds with more text based on the user’s prompts. “Remember, Bard is as generative as any big model — it’s not looking up or summarizing for you, it’s generating text.”

The product manager had bluntly said in a July chat not to trust the output of a big language model unless it can be independently verified (by users themselves).

Another product manager, Warkentin, also wrote in the discussion, “Humanization improvements are crucial if Bard is to be a product for everyone. Otherwise, users won’t have the ability to judge the functionality of the product, and I think that would be a huge mistake.” “We don’t need a product in an ivory tower, but one that everyone can use!”

Google’s expanded deployment of the Bard AI tool in July of this year included a “Share Conversation Link” feature. Users can export their conversations with Bard in the form of web links and share them with others so that they can continue to have conversations with Bard.

Gagan Ghotra, an analytics consultant at Platform X, discovered the vulnerability, in which Google incorrectly indexed some of the links shared by users in its search results, leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.

Gagan Ghotra warned users not to share any “private content” while conversing with Bard, as that information could be compromised.

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The class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in the Northern District of California by the Clarkson Law Firm, accuses Google, its AI subsidiary DeepMind and parent company Alphabet of stealing people’s data. “Google took all of our personal and professional information, our creative and copyrighted work, our photos, and even our emails — virtually the entirety of our digital footprint” to build its AI products, the lawsuit claims. “For years, Google secretly collected this data without notifying anyone or asking for consent.

The lawsuit also alleges that Google stole data from subscription-based sites and sites known for pirating books and creative works. The lawsuit also references Google’s July 1 update to its privacy policy, which says the company may collect information available “publicly online” to train its AI models and build products like Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI.

The lawsuit says: “Google must understand: it does not own the Internet, nor does it own our creative work, our expressions of individuality, our family and children’s photos, or anything else that belongs to us because we share it online. ‘Publicly available’ never meant free to use for any purpose.

In a statement sent to Reuters, Google called the allegations in the lawsuit “baseless.” Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google’s general counsel, told Insider in a statement that the company has been “clear for years” about using data from public sources, such as data posted to the open web and public datasets, to train the Google services like Translate “and is consistent with our AI Principles.

Delaine Prado added: “U.S. law supports the use of publicly available information to create new beneficial uses, and we look forward to dismissing these baseless allegations.

The Clarkson law firm filed a similar complaint against OpenAI two weeks ago, alleging that the company stole “massive amounts of personal data” and used it to train ChatGPT, including medical records and information about children.

One of the plaintiffs in Google’s lawsuit is believed to be a New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter living in Texas, who claims that Google used a pirated PDF of her book to train Bard. the lawsuit alleges that her work is now widely available for free on Bard and that the bot gives chapter summaries of the book and even shares snippets of the book verbatim.

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The move is a “remedial action” after the code leak occurred last month. It was previously reported that within 20 days after Samsung Electronics introduced the chat robot ChatGPT, there were 3 accidents involving ChatGPT, 2 of which were related to semiconductor equipment. 1 related to the content of the meeting.

The internal memo said Samsung was concerned that data transmitted to artificial intelligence platforms such as Google Bard and Microsoft Bing was stored on external servers, difficult to retrieve and delete, and could eventually be leaked to other users, the report said.

The internal memo also revealed that 65% of respondents to a survey Samsung conducted last month about its internal use of AI tools considered such services to be a security risk. The memo revealed that Samsung engineers uploaded internal source code to ChatGPT in early April, and it is unclear what the information contained.

Meanwhile, Samsung is developing its own in-house AI tools for translating and summarizing documents and software development, as well as working on ways to prevent sensitive company information from being uploaded to external services. “Headquarters is reviewing safety measures to create a safe environment to safely use generative AI to increase employee productivity and efficiency. However, until these measures are in place, we are temporarily limiting the use of generative AI.”

Samsung’s new policy prohibits the use of generative AI systems on the company’s own computers, tablets and phones, as well as on its internal network, and will not affect devices sold to consumers, such as Android smartphones and Windows laptops. Samsung is even actively promoting generative AI in consumer devices. According to IT House’s previous reports, Samsung has recently pushed Microsoft’s Bing AI update to all its mobile phones and tablet products. After this update is completed, Samsung users can directly pass Use Microsoft Bing AI on your phone or tablet.

A Samsung representative confirmed the internal memo to Bloomberg. Samsung said in the memo: “We ask that you carefully follow our security guidelines, failure to do so may result in the disclosure of company information, and violators may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.”

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Factual errors in chatbot responses aren’t new – they’re one of the main problems with such big language models these days – and Google said flat out yesterday that Bard’s answers would contain factual errors, so why even report this news? Not to pick on Bard, but it’s an interesting mistake.

It turns out that the source of Bard’s incorrect answer was a joking post on Hacker News by a user who teased that Google would shut down Bard within a year and that Google had indeed shut down many of its own services in the past.

Google also admits that Bard contains some factual errors because it gets its information from the web, and Microsoft’s new Bing has a similar problem. This issue is one of the biggest challenges for artificial intelligence based on large language models (LLMs), and both Google and Microsoft will improve the process of getting information over time, but there will still be occasional problems. In addition, Bard is still in preview, so it still needs to go through more public testing.

How to make these chatbots better at identifying fake messages is a problem that these tech giants need to seriously consider.

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The media believes that Google will invite users to test ChromeOS in the future by means of an experimental flag, which is translated as follows.

"Launcher experiment: conversational search.

Evaluate the feasibility of conversational search as part of the launcher search."

ChromeOS, with this experimental Flag enabled, will ditch the launcher’s built-in search functionality (searching for files, apps, and the web) and instead offer Bard’s chat interface. Things are still a work in progress, so it’s possible that this design will change before release.

Bard on Chromebooks will appear as a separate page from the ChromeOS bubble launcher — just like Google Assistant does today — with a scrollable conversation history and search bar.

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In a demonstration of how the Bard works, users type in a search query, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?” The NASA telescope, which became operational in December 2021, has been used by scientists to discover several new planets outside our solar system.

Bard gave many answers, one of which was that the James Webb telescope had taken the first pictures of planets outside our solar system. However, this statement is inaccurate because the first photos of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004. The exoplanet, called 2M1207b, is about five times the size of Jupiter and is about 170 light-years from Earth.

After the error was discovered, Alphabet’s shares fell nearly 9 percent in midday trading before falling back somewhat. Yesterday, Alphabet’s share price peaked at $98.03 per share, down 8.1 percent from $106.77 the day before. It was the biggest one-day drop in Alphabet’s market value since October 2022, when the company lost 9 percent of its market value in one day after announcing a sharp slowdown in revenue, profit and growth.

A Google spokesperson said, “This underscores the importance of a rigorous testing process and is part of our Trusted Tester program, which we launched this week. We will combine external feedback with internal testing to ensure that Bard’s responses meet higher standards for quality, security and truthful information.”

Gil Luria, senior software analyst at D.A. Davidson, said, “While Google has been a consistent leader in AI innovation over the past few years, they seem to have fallen asleep at the wheel when it comes to applying the technology to their search products. In the past few weeks, Google has been busy playing catch-up with its competitors, which has led to embarrassingly rushed releases of its products and wrong answers given during demos.”

Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results were disappointing as advertisers cut spending. The search and advertising giant is moving quickly to keep pace with OpenAI and other competitors. But King Lip, chief strategist at Baker Avenue Wealth Management, which owns shares of both Alphabet and Microsoft, said, “People are starting to question whether Microsoft will now become a strong competitor to Google’s main business.” Lip warned, however, that concerns about Alphabet may be overstated. He said, “I think the new Bing is still a far cry from Google’s search capabilities.”

However, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill wrote in a research note to investors, “The search improvements will act as a thrust to long-term ad revenue, but it will take time to draw users back to Bing, and they will need crowbars to pry away the loyalty of Google advertisers. We see these updates as the tip of the iceberg of Microsoft’s AI capabilities, with the greatest opportunity in enterprise use cases.”

Analysts at Evercore said there was “little incremental news” from Google’s campaign, which may have contributed to the stock’s decline. Analysts said they saw it as a “premature and perhaps rushed outlook” for AI, which Google has been working on for years. Even so, the analysts said they believe Google’s AI technology is “at least as good as its competitors. “Years of AI investment and unparalleled scale should help Google defend its market dominance in the long term,” they wrote in the research note.

The new ChatGPT software breathes new life into tech companies after tens of thousands of layoffs in recent weeks and tech executives pledged to cut back on so-called “moonshot projects. A Reuters survey found that AI has become the new object of obsession for tech executives, who mentioned it six times more often in recent earnings calls than in previous quarters.

The appeal of AI search is that it can display search results in plain language, rather than as a list of links, which could make browsing faster and more efficient. It’s unclear what impact this might have on targeted advertising, which is a revenue pillar for search engines like Google.

Chatbot AI systems also pose a risk to companies because of the inherent biases in their algorithms, which could skew results and generate harmful content. For example, Microsoft released a chatbot on Twitter in 2016 that generated content on racial discrimination before it was shut down. The news site CNET used AI which was found to be plagiarized and falsified.

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As opposed to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which Pichai said duplicates the latest information on the Internet, and ChatGPT’s knowledge only as of 2021, “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our artificial intelligence.

It’s worth noting that Microsoft also said it plans to release its own AI product on Tuesday, local time.

ChatGPT, currently an instant industry sensation, is a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI that Google believes could disrupt the way consumers search for information, which is one of the biggest challenges for the company’s most basic business, and indeed other AI projects.

In a blog post, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said his company is planning to launch a conversational AI service called Bard to test user feedback and will release it publicly in the coming weeks.

He also said Google plans to add AI capabilities to its search engine to include more material for complex queries, such as “which is easier, learning guitar or piano”; for questions with clear answers, Google will provide text that exists elsewhere on the Web. Microsoft has been doing this a few days ago.

For now, Google has not revealed the timing of this update to support Bard search, nor has it explained how the company will enhance its service. Microsoft is already doing the same thing for Bing, and will at least embed OpenAI functionality into it, which Google is not expected to stray too far from.

As for Microsoft, details will be announced at a press conference on Tuesday, when its CEO Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the event and brief the press on its unspecified developments, and Microsoft will also announce the integration of its AI into all its products.

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