Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

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Shares for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new artificial intelligence technology produced a factual error in an ad demo

It’s a bruising reception for Bard, the conversational bot that Google launched as a competitor to Microsoft’s headline-making darling, ChatGPT.

In the fateful ad that ran on Google’s Twitter feed this week,

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