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Nicholas Gordon

Microsoft's demo of Bing AI also made factual errors

Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi next to a presentation showing OpenAI's logo. (Credit: Jason Redmon—AFP via Getty Images)

After a single mistake in Google’s demo of its new A.I. program erased billions of dollars in market value, employees complained that the company had rushed out the news to get ahead of Microsoft’s own A.I. announcement a day later. 

Except it turns out that Microsoft’s demo also contained answers that were incomplete, confusingly sourced and, at worst, entirely incorrect, according to an analysis published by independent A.I. researcher Dmitri Brereton.

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