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Google Bard’s Debut Error: Getting a Webb Telescope Fact Wrong

Bard (chatbot)

In Google’s 2023 Bard promotion, the chatbot incorrectly claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope took the first image of an exoplanet; that milestone had been achieved by the ground-based VLT in 2004.

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It became a textbook big-company AI failure: a basic astronomy error appeared inside the product launch itself, illustrating the cost of presenting fluent output before verifying the facts.

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