Google v Microsoft: who will win the AI chatbot race?

The James Webb space telescope cost $10bn (£8.3bn) to build, but it left Google nursing losses of more than $160bn after the search engine's new chatbot answered a question about it incorrectly. Google and Microsoft both announced plans for AI-enhanced search this week, taking the artificial intelligence space race into a new phase. However, the launch of the former's new chatbot, Bard, misfired badly when the error appeared in a demo. The competitor to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT was asked about the telescope and one of the answers displayed said it "took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system". Experts were quick to notice the inaccuracy – as were investors.