Google employees describe Bard AI announcement as "rushed", "botched"

San Francisco: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, has reportedly come under fire from the business's employees for how the company handled this week's debut of ChatGPT rival "Bard," calling it "rushed" and "botched."

According to CNBC, employees on the well-liked internal forum Memegen criticised the Bard announcement, calling it "rushed," "botched," and "un-Googley."

"Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic. Please return to taking a long-term outlook," read one meme that included a serious picture of Pichai.

The post received many upvotes from employees, said the report.

Another meme reads: "Rushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market's fear about us".

Moreover, on Twitter, people began pointing out that an ad for Bard offered an incorrect description of a telescope used to take the first pictures of a planet outside our solar system, the report mentioned.

"Unfortunately a simple google search would tell us that JWST actually did not "take the very first picture of a planet outside of our own solar system" and this is literally in the ad for Bard so I wouldn't trust it yet," a user tweeted.

Earlier this week, Google competitor Microsoft introduced its new Bing-powered by "next-generation" ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) and also updated its Edge browser with new AI capabilities.

With inputs from IANS