Google CEO Sundar Pichai criticized for “hurried” announcement of Chat GPT Rival Bard

Google employees are reportedly criticizing leadership, particularly CEO Sundar Pichai, over the way the company handled this week’s announcement of its ChatGPT competitor called Bard, a new report says.

According to CNBC, those employees took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on Bard’s announcement. Some employees call it “rushed”, “broken” and “un-Google”.

“Dear Sundar, Bard’s launch and layoffs were rushed, messy and myopic,” read one meme, which included a serious photo of Pichai. “Get back to the long-term view.” The message received a lot of support from the employees.

“Sundar and leadership deserve Perf NI,” another highly rated meme read, referring to the bottom tier of the company’s employee performance appraisal system. “They are comically short-sighted and un-Googleable in their efforts to ‘sharpen their focus’.”

Earlier this month, the US-based tech giant announced “Bard” to compete with ChatGPT in the large language model (LLM) space. CEO Pichai made the announcement via a blog post. Bard is an “experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA” – a Dialogue Applications language model that specifically “pulls data from the web to provide fresh, high-quality answers” rather than having its training data limited to a specific year.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports that the global buzz surrounding Microsoft’s chatbot ChatGPT has spread to China, boosting shares of AI-related companies and prompting local companies to announce competing projects.

Like Microsoft and Google, Chinese tech giants such as Baidu and Alibaba, as well as smaller start-ups, have been working on AI projects for years.

China’s chatbots focus mostly on social interaction, while ChatGPT, which learns from vast amounts of data to respond to user prompts in a human-like manner, performs better in more professional tasks such as programming and essay writing.

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