Google unveiled new search features during its “Live from Paris” event via a YouTube stream. The emphasis was on multisearch, which will go live globally to mobile platforms in more than 70 languages where Google Lens is used, according to the company. Introduced last year, the multisearch feature looks through images and text, driven by an AI technology the company has developed called MUM, for Multitask Unified Model. There were no new announcements regarding Bard, Google’s new conversational AI search tool, although media outlets reported that Bard responded incorrectly in a Twitter promo the same day.

Reuters said Alphabet stock dropped more than 8 percent as a result of the error. During the Paris live stream, Google SVP Prabhakar Raghavan declared “search is still our biggest moonshot” right before Reuters disclosed Bard provided inaccurate information to a query about the first satellite to photograph a planet outside Earth’s solar system.

“Google’s Bard chatbot confidently spouts misinformation in Twitter debut,” wrote Engadget, detailing the mistake. However, Google has emphasized that Bard is still in development.

The New York Times has been prolific on dissembling chatbots, writing that Meta Platforms opted to pull the plug on its conversant AI, Galactica, after “an avalanche of complaints” because “like ChatGPT, Galactica also played fast and loose with facts.”

But unlike ChatGPT’s small and relatively unknown parent OpenAI, Meta “was hamstrung, in part, by its reputation as a corporate giant that helps spread untruths,” NYT reports, adding that “with responsibilities to billions of users, it could not afford to leave online a chatbot that can generate false and biased information.”

Shortly after ChatGPT debuted last year, NewsGuard proclaimed it “is going to be the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the Internet,” according to NYT in an article titled “Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About AI Chatbots.”

AI is on a learning curve that can accurately be described as its infancy. Adorable, and sometimes precocious, neither infants nor toddlers are known for accuracy. Google has yet to respond to Bard’s first public misstep.

At the Paris event, “Google chose to showcase the many ways it’s baking AI tech into its many apps and services, including Maps, Lens and Translate,” TechRadar writes, adding that “while we’ve seen many of the features before at events like Google I/O, a few are now actually being rolled out,” including “Google Maps’ Immersive View,” which provides “Superman-style flyovers of tourist hotspots, complete with simulated weather for different times of the day,” launching in “more” cities, “including London, New York and LA.” A new Google Lens feature was previewed that lets Android users activate AI by double tapping the power button.

VentureBeat called Google’s “Live from Paris” event “a muted response” to Microsoft’s Tuesday press event, “where CEO Satya Nadella said the ‘race starts today’ in search, and that ‘we’re going to move fast.’”