Recently, Google CEO Sundar Pichai requested all employees to dedicate 2-4 hours of their time to improve the AI chatbot, Bard. The idea was for employees to test the chatbot by asking it questions and flagging incorrect answers.
Will Bard Work?
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Bard is meant to be integrated into Google’s search engine and able to converse with users about various topics using information from indexed web pages.
However, some employees have expressed their discontent with the request, stating that it came just after Google laid off around 12,000 employees in response to a revenue slowdown caused by the pandemic.
They have taken to internal message boards to share their concerns and ask Bard about the recent layoffs and the treatment of employees.
These conversations and memes suggest that employees are unhappy with being given extra work while they feel their job performance is under greater scrutiny.
The Conversation with Bard
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One conversation involved an employee asking Bard to imagine a scenario in which an IT company had laid off 12,000 employees, and the CEO then asked employees to spend time testing their chatbot.
Bard responded that the CEO’s intention might be cheerful and optimistic, but it would be inappropriate to ask employees to play with the chatbot at this time,
A number of Google employees have shared their interactions with the company’s AI chatbot, Bard, on topics such as the recent layoffs and employee treatment.
In one conversation, Bard was asked whether it was appropriate for Google to fire people via email without any farewell messages, to which Bard replied that it was a very impersonal way of dismissing someone.
The Humour !!
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Other conversations centered around humorous topics, such as asking Bard to make jokes about layoffs at Google or Valentine’s Day and Google’s layoffs. Google had previously faced internal criticism for the Bard announcement, which came shortly after Microsoft launched a revamped version of Bing that featured ChatGPT.
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Moreover, the promotional material for Bard displayed the chatbot providing an incorrect answer, causing Google’s stock to fall by almost 9% on the next trading day.
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