Microsoft has followed what seems to be the AI hype train around ChatGPT, after investing ten billion dollars in OpenAI the creators of ChatGPT. Currently, Bing AI, as it is being called, is in a closed beta. Meaning that most users will be left waiting for the public release. There is no public release date as of now. But ChatGPT is still free to use with an account, and query results should be quite similar.

In response, Google has started development of their own AI they are calling Bard. This has caused some issues for them including a nine percent drop in market value or roughly one hundred billion dollars. Which was due to having the Bard make a mistake with the given prompt, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I tell my 9-year old about?” Bard claimed that JWST was the first to capture pictures of planets further away than the end of our solar system. However, this is simply not true, the first ones that were confirmed by NASA were taken by European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, seventeen years before the JWST was launched into space.

Honestly, I don’t believe that either will be a perfect solution. While it is interesting to see what our computers and servers can generate, as long as it continues to be based on randomness as it always has, it will not be able to replace a human’s level of interpretation of search results, whether the losses come from making up facts or overlooking important information that could completely change the expected results.