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☆ Google CEO tells employees 'things will go wrong' as the public tests its ChatGPT rival Bard
  + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Google's CEO told employees "things will go wrong" with the company's AI chatbot, Bard. Google began rolling out staggered access to its ChatGPT rival on Tuesday. On Tuesday, Google began rolling out staggered public access to its much-anticipated ChatGPT rival, Bard. A spokesperson for Google told Insider that "Bard can sometimes give inaccurate or inappropriate information that doesn't represent Google's views." In the email to employees on Tuesday, Pichai said that public feedback is "critical" to improving Bard's functionality.
☆ Image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a star getting ready to die in stunning detail. The image shows a rare Wolf-Rayet star, expelling its outer layers in the phase before a supernova. A Wolf-Rayet star is "among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly-detectable stars known," according to NASA. Webb helps investigate a dusty cosmic mysteryThat cosmic dust is of great interest to astronomers. An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope.
☆ NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
A NASA Hubble image may show the first runaway supermassive black hole ever discovered. Astrophysicists have long theorized that black holes could "go rogue" or "run away," if other black holes pushed them out of their galaxies. But nobody has ever confirmed a black hole wandering through intergalactic space, much less a supermassive black hole going rogue. And while two galaxies colliding is the simplest explanation for a rogue black hole, that's not what seems to have happened here. Even though they're invisible, there's no reason to worry about rogue supermassive black holes sneaking up on us from other galaxies.
☆ Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are ruining images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, threatening future science
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is getting more satellites ruining its images, a new study found. Hubble images streaked with white lines show the impact of just one satellite flying through the telescope's field of view. The proportion of Hubble images that look like this is increasing as more satellites fill Earth's orbit, the study found. Hubble peers through a growing 'wall' between us and the universeThe Hubble Space Telescope in Earth's orbit. So far SpaceX has launched more than 3,000 Starlink satellites and plans to eventually maintain up to 42,000 satellites in orbit.
☆ NASA to name solar scientist as agency's science chief, sources say
  + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - NASA has picked a longtime solar scientist who heads its heliophysics division to become the U.S. space agency's science chief, according two people familiar with the decision. Nicola Fox, former top scientist on the Parker Solar Probe mission studying the sun, will be named this week as NASA's associate administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate, said the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement. Fox will lead NASA's science directorate, a unit with an annual budget of roughly $7 billion that oversees some of the agency's best-known programs from the robotic hunts for past life on Mars to exploring distant galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope. Fox will succeed Thomas Zurbuchen, a Swiss-American astrophysicist who had led the directorate since 2016 before his retirement in December. Sandra Connelly, formerly Zurbuchen's deputy, has been leading the directorate in an acting capacity.
☆ Galaxies spotted by Webb telescope rewrite understanding of early universe
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
These galaxies, one of which appears to have a mass rivaling our Milky Way but 30 times more densely packed, seem to differ in fundamental ways from those populating the universe today. "The leading theory is that an ocean of dark matter filled the early universe after the Big Bang," Labbe said. "This dark matter - we don't know what it is actually is - started out really smooth, with only the tiniest of ripples. These ripples grew over time due to gravity and eventually the dark matter started to collect in concentrated clumps, dragging hydrogen gas along for the ride. "Their explosion set off the chain of events that formed subsequent generations of stars," Labbe said.
☆ The UFO shoot-downs show the hardest part of discovering alien life may be announcing it. Here's how NASA might break the news.
  + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Extraterrestrial life likely wouldn't show up as flying objects, but finding it could cause similar chaos. An illustration of the CoLD scale for determining confidence in a detection of alien life. The president or other countries could be involved in announcing extraterrestrial life existsPresident Joe Biden speaks at Delaware State University. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAnnouncing the existence of alien life would be an "administration-level" affair, Glaze said, referring to the US presidency. Needless to say, any discovery of alien life would likely lead to chaos — at least in public discourse.
☆ Ex-Google employee says the 'once-great company has slowly ceased to function' because of 4 core cultural problems
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ex-Googler Praveen Seshadri wrote on Medium that employees are "trapped in a maze" of bureaucracy. Seshadri said Google's issues boil down to four "core cultural problems." Even small product changes go through the rigor of a "NASA space launch," he wrote, calling out what he said were fundamental issues within the company, and declaring that "a once-great company has slowly ceased to function." He enumerated the company's "four core cultural problems" as being "no mission, no urgency, delusions of exceptionalism, mismanagement." Seshadri also critiqued Google employees in his post, calling MemeGen "a wallow chamber," and said that griping on it "doesn't help anything."
☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai asks employees to put two to four hours into helping to improve and 'dogfood' its Bard chatbot
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Google this week began companywide internal testing of Bard, its AI chatbot for search. In a memo, CEO Sundar Pichai has asked all employees to spend 2-4 hours helping test the product. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sent an internal memo to Googlers on Wednesday asking them to contribute 2-4 hours of their time to helping improve Bard, the company's AI chatbot that it intends to integrate into search. Google kicked off "dogfooding," or internally testing, Bard on Tuesday, according to another memo seen by Insider. Read the full memo below:Hi Googlers,Excited to see us opening up Bard for an internal dogfood to help us get it ready for launch.
☆ Google didn't think its Bard AI was 'really ready' for a product yet, says Alphabet chairman, days after the chatbot's very public mistake tanked the company's stock
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
John Hennessy, the chairman of Alphabet, said Google was hesitant to use its Bard AI in a product as it wasn't "really ready," per CNBC. Google unveiled its Bard AI last week amid intense interest in competitor ChatGPT. But a promo for Google Bard featured a factual error — which sent Alphabet's stock down 9% in a day. Google unveiled Bard amid intense interest in rival chatbot ChatGPT, and just a day before Microsoft rolled out its AI-powered Bing search engine which is built using technology from OpenAI, the parent of ChatGPT. At the conference, Hennessy declined to comment specifically on the public's reaction to Google's Bard, per CNBC.
☆ Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks ChatGPT is 'pretty impressive,' but warned it can make 'horrible mistakes': CNBC
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Felise Seah | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Steve Wozniak said OpenAI's ChatGPT is "pretty impressive," during an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. "The trouble is it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanness is," Wozniak warned. "The trouble is it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanness is," Wozniak warned. In the interview, Wozniak also drew a parallel to the concerns surrounding AI technology in self-driving cars, and said that AI cannot currently replace human drivers. Google's new experimental AI chatbot, Bard, gave an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope.
☆ Mark Cuban: Internet misinformation will only ‘get worse’ as ChatGPT and its competitors grow
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Mark Cuban may be entertained by chatbots like Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google's upcoming Bard — but he isn't ready to trust them. Right now, misinformation tends to spread through social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter — and that's with some semblance of human guardrails in place, Cuban said. But so far, the technology isn't showing itself to be smarter than the average human. That's a problem, especially for large swaths of people who don't always fact check claims they see on the internet, Cuban said. Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that the technology behind ChatGPT isn't perfect — even as it plans to incorporate it into an upcoming version of its search engine, Bing.
☆ Google search chief warns AI chatbots can give 'convincing but completely fictitious' answers, report says
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Google's search engine boss said AI chatbots can give "convincing" but "fictitious" answers. Prabhakar Raghavan told Welt am Sonntag it's considering how to integrate Bard with Google search. Prabhakar Raghavan told Welt Am Sonntag on Saturday that they can sometimes give false but convincing answers. However, an ad for Bard showed it giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope. Maarten Bosma, a former research engineer at Alphabet's AI division Google Brain, tweeted that the presentation showed the company wasn't taking AI seriously enough.
☆ Steve Wozniak's warning: No matter how 'useful' ChatGPT is, it can 'make horrible mistakes'
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
On Wednesday, the Apple co-founder made an impromptu appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box" to talk about the increasingly popular artificial intelligence chatbot. Wozniak said he finds ChatGPT "pretty impressive" and "useful to humans," despite his usual aversion to tech that claims to mimic real-life brains. Wozniak pointed to self-driving cars as a technological development with similar concerns, noting that artificial intelligence can't currently replace human drivers. By multiple measures, ChatGPT's artificial intelligence is impressive. The Webb telescope did take photographs of such planets, called exoplanets, in September.
☆ Premarket stocks: Welcome to the 'rolling recession' economy
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Yet US manufacturing has likely already contracted into a recession, housing sales have plummeted, tech layoffs keep coming and corporate earnings growth is souring. “We continue to think the economy will suffer from rolling recessions, evidenced by the fact that corporate earnings growth is now entering its downturn,” wrote Sonders in a note on Wednesday. For five straight weeks, the bank’s clients have been big buyers of individual stocks and sellers of ETFs, she wrote. Disney revenue in the quarter rose 8% to $23.5 billion, edging past estimates of $23.4 billion from analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. The company reported revenue of $8.6 billion for the quarter, beating Wall Street’s estimates and marking a 49% increase from the prior year.
☆ Google has long dominated search, and it's about to massively change it to meet the rising threat of ChatGPT. New AI features could intensify battles with content creators.
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Like Microsoft's revamped Bing search engine, Bard is meant to give answers directly within search. The unveiling of its new search chatbot this week is likely to once again raise the question of whether Google is using others' work without fair compensation. The company is incorporating the conversational chatbot technology, known as Bard, into search, first as a small test while the company gathers feedback. Microsoft, which recently announced a multibillion-dollar investment into ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, similarly intends to incorporate that chatbot into its Bing search engine. Microsoft could face similar headaches as it rolls out its new Bing search engine.
☆ CNBC Daily Open: The Fed made sure U.S. markets are listening: Interest rates will continue rising
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Christopher Waller, governor of the US Federal Reserve, during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. After weeks of defying the Federal Reserve, U.S. markets realized that interest rate hikes are probably here to stay. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Subscribe here to get this report sent directly to your inbox each morning before markets open.
☆ CNBC Daily Open: U.S. markets got the Fed’s message: Interest rate hikes are probably here to stay
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
After weeks of defying the Federal Reserve, U.S. markets realized that interest rate hikes are probably here to stay. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. In a wave of downbeat news, investors may indeed need a telescope to find some good news in the near term. Subscribe here to get this report sent directly to your inbox each morning before markets open.
☆ Ex-Google engineer said his former employer isn't taking AI seriously after demoing its new tools in Paris
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Maarten Bosma, an ex-Google Brain engineer, said in a tweet that Alphabet isn't taking AI seriously. Bosma's tweet comes after Google demoed its latest AI tools in Paris, including ChatGPT rival Bard. Some critics called Google's demo "frankly, bad" and a "disaster" amid a growing AI arms race. "I think the Google presentation signaled (rightfully or wrongly) that they are not really taking it seriously," Bosma tweeted. Microsoft' demo "was presented as a revolution," while Google's demo was presented as a "disaster," Marcus wrote.
☆ Google AI chatbot Bard offers inaccurate information in company ad
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot Bard delivered an inaccurate answer. The tech giant posted a short GIF video of Bard in action via Twitter, describing the chatbot as a "launchpad for curiosity" that would help simplify complex topics. loadingIn the advertisement, Bard is given the prompt: "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I tell my 9-year old about?" The first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, as confirmed by NASA. At the time of writing, the ad had been viewed on Twitter more than 880,000 times.
☆ Whoops: Google's ad for new ChatGPT rival Bard shows the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Google recently revealed its experimental AI chatbot, Bard, a rival to OpenAI's viral ChatGPT. In an ad for Bard, the chatbot gives an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope. The ad depicts the chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Reuters first reported. In the ad, a user asks Bard, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?" Shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, have fallen by over 8% since Google's AI showcase in Paris this morning.
☆ Google’s AI chatbot Bard had an inaccurate response in public demo
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Google’s much-hyped new AI chatbot tool Bard, which has yet to be released to the public, is already being called out for an inaccurate response it produced in a demo this week. Bard’s blunder highlights the challenge for Google as it races to integrate the same AI technology that underpins Microsoft-backed ChatGPT into its core search engine. In trying to keep pace with what some think could be a radical change spurred by conversational AI in how people search online, Google now risks upending its search engine’s reputation for surfacing reliable information. Like ChatGPT, Bard is built on a large language model, which is trained on vast troves of data online in order to generate compelling responses to user prompts. The executive said AI technology would pave the way for the “next frontier of our information products.”
☆ Alphabet slides 9% after a report the tech titan's ad for its new Google AI chatbot Bard had inaccurate information
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Alphabet stock dropped Wednesday after a report about an inaccuracy in as ad for its new Bard AI chatbot. Reuters reported the Google ad on Twitter offered an incorrect answer related to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. ChatGPT popularity has launched a race among tech companies to integrate AI chat features into their products. NASA has confirmed European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope had taken the first pictures of exoplanets, in 2004, the report said. The report said Google hadn't immediately responded to a comment request.
☆ Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he will be 'enlisting every Googler' to help test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival, report says
  + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Sundar Pichai said he'll ask all Google employees to help test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival, CNBC reports. "We're looking forward to getting all of your feedback — in the spirit of an internal hackathon," Pichai told staff. Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide email on Monday after the company announced that it was rolling out Bard over the next few weeks. "Next week, we'll be enlisting every Googler to help shape Bard and contribute through a special company-wide dogfood," Pichai wrote in the email, per CNBC. Bard appears to be similar to ChatGPT in that users can ask it questions and get an answer in response.
☆ Google announces Bard A.I. in response to ChatGPT
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai during press conference at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. They included a chatbot called "Apprentice Bard," as well as new search desktop designs that could be used in a question-and-answer format. Google on Monday announced an artificial intelligence chatbot technology called " Bard " that the company will begin rolling out in the coming weeks. Bard will compete directly with rival ChatGPT , an AI service created by OpenAI. Google's prime business is web search, and the company has long touted itself as a pioneer in AI.
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