Google Bard advert shows new AI search tool making a factual error

An advert for Google Bard, the tech giant's experimental conversational AI, inadvertently shows the tool providing a factually inaccurate response to a query. It is evidence that the move to use artificial intelligence chatbots like this to provide results for web searches is happening too fast, says Carissa Véliz at the University of Oxford. "The possibilities for creating misinformation on a mass scale are huge," she says. Google announced this week that it was launching an AI called Bard that will be integrated into its search engine after a testing phase, providing users with a bespoke written response to their query rather than a list of relevant websites. Chinese search engine Baidu has also announced plans for a similar project, and on 7 February, Microsoft launched its own AI results service for its Bing search engine.