Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, has reportedly come under fire from the business’s staff for how the company handled this week’s announcement of the launch of ChatGPT rival “Bard,” calling it “rushed” and “botched.”

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Staff members criticized the Bard news, describing it as “rushed,” “botched,” and “un-Googley” on the popular internal forum Memegen, according to CNBC. “Sundar’s release, the layoffs, and the launch of Bard were all hastily, imprecisely, and tightly planned events. I came across a meme that featured a sombre Pichai”. The report claims that several employees gave the message a lot of positive votes. The punchline of another joke is, “Rushing Bard to market in a frenzy justified the market’s fear about us.”

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In addition, people started calling out on Twitter that a Bard advertisement misrepresented the telescope that was used to capture the first photos of a planet beyond our solar system, as reported by the newspaper. A user tweeted that, regrettably, the JWST did not “catch the very first picture of a planet outside of our own solar system. This week, Microsoft unveiled an update to its Edge browser with more AI features in addition to its new Bing, which is supported by “next-generation” ChatGPT AI. The developer of ChatGPT, San Francisco-based Open AI, has a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft.

The business has already incorporated itself into the Bing web browser and has ambitions to do the same with Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook’s email service. OpenAI created the ChatGPT chatbot, which has been taught to have conversations that resemble those of a human. Within a week of its release, the chatbot, which made its debut in November, had amassed over a million users. It can respond to complex user queries and compose essays, articles, codes, and even pick-up lines.