During a presentation on the « multi-search » feature, Reid went on to introduce a live demo. After a silence and what may be termed as a nervous chuckle, she realised that her demo phone is missing. « We are missing the phone. Going to move on, we can’t find the phone. » The moment did cause a bit of confusion, however, Reid quickly regained her composure fast and carried on with the presentation. Later, when Raghavan came back on stage, he joked, « Thanks Liz, and we’ll have to figure out who stole your phone. » Those wanting to see the ‘confusion’ can view it at around 9 minutes in the video below.
Google presents : Live from Paris
The $100 billion error
Alphabet Inc lost $100 billion in market value on February 8 after its new chatbot Bard shared inaccurate information in a promotional video. Google parent Alphabet shares slid as much as 9% during regular trading with volumes nearly three times the 50-day moving average. News agency Reuters was reportedly first to point out an error in Google’s advertisement for chatbot Bard about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system. Bard’s error was discovered just before the presentation by Google in Paris.
The live-streamed presentation also did not include details about how and when the company would integrate Bard into its core search function. What worried investors is that just a day earlier, Microsoft held an event touting that it had already released to the public a version of its Bing search with ChatGPT functions integrated.
