Tech giant Google earlier this week unveiled ChatGPT rival Bard, which was not well received by Google employees saying that the debut was “rushed and botched”. They blame Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai for this.
On Monday, Google unveiled a LaMDA-powered product Bard to take on rival ChatGPT. Google’s announcement surprised many, including its own employees. It came just a day ahead of a Microsoft event where the company revealed the “new Bing” which is powered by ChatGPT through Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI.
Reports suggest that Google employees since then took to their internal forum “Memegen” criticising Pichai over the way he handled the announcements.
One employee wrote, “Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic”, as per a report. Another employee said that “Rushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market’s fear about us”.
Referring to January’s mass layoffs, an employee wrote “sentiment was built on with another meme that said “Firing 12k people rises the stock by 3%, one rushed AI presentation drops it by 8%”.
Bard by Google, which is seen as the next in line defining the future of AI, is powered by Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Pichai said that Bard is “an experimental conversational AI service.”
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills,” wrote Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post.
