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I would wager this current PR blitz was initiated by MS, not Google. First we had a burst of narratives about "Google search sucks". Then ChatGPT appears with much fanfare. Then Bing AI appears. We get a very overblown narrative about Bard getting 1 fact slightly wrong (like literally every other LLM) and falsely being linked to a 8% drop in GOOG (the real cause was simply Bing AI announcement).

Managed narratives all around.




There was more to the Bard issues than this. The live Paris demo in which the demo phone couldn't be found live on stage (!!) is one of the worst large scale public presentations I've seen in a while, like Tesla Cybertruck window smash bad. At least the Cybertruck was there though!

There were really two big mistakes Google made in the unveil - the incorrect result and the "missing" phone. The latter is wild for a Google sized org, imagine if Apple didn't have an iPad or iPhone on hand to demo a next generation iOS feature at a public keynote in front of the media. I'd love to know what the real story behind the lost demo phone is.

This all adds up to look like a rushed response, which of course it was.

> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/in-pa...


The "demo got it wrong" narrative was about the Bard announcement, not the mismanaged Paris event. Moving the goalposts.


The Paris demo was part of the same announcement on the same day? Both contributed to the large drop in the stock and both are evidence of a rushed response to the MS announcement.




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