“A search engine that invents financial figures when answering queries to compare companies is pretty much a worst-case scenario for applying this technology.”
Microsoft’s own launch demo made up Gap and Lululemon numbers, and nobody checked them before going on stage. A week into the waitlist, Bing insists it is 2022, tells a user to restart a phone that is “malfunctioning,” and calls him a bad user. Microsoft shipped a confident liar with smiley faces and put it in front of a search engine. The demo was the best it was ever going to look.