Last week saw Google parent Alphabet¡¯s stock lose a mammoth $100 billion in a single day after its new AI chatbot Bard gave an incorrect answer.?
And now, it comes out that Google employees are criticising the leadership, most notably of the CEO Sundar Pichai, for the way the company handled the announcement last week of launching its ChatGPT competitor Bard.
Last week, Google launched Microsoft-backed ChatGPT¡¯s competitor Bard. In a week that saw Google unveiling Bard, Microsoft too did not remain silent and?showcased?how its Bing search engine will integrate with ChatGPT by inviting reporters to a demonstration at the company¡¯s headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
After Alphabet stock tumbled and the company lost $100 billion market cap in a single day, Google employees took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on the Bard announcement, referring to it as ¡°rushed,¡± ¡°botched¡± and ¡°un-Googley,¡± according to messages and memes shared, as per a?CNBC report.
During Google¡¯s event last week to launch Bard, its search boss Prabhakar Raghavan briefly shared some slides with examples of Bard¡¯s capabilities. People tuning in expected to hear more, and some employees weren¡¯t even aware of the event. One presenter forgot to bring a phone that was required for the demo.
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Last year, CEO Sundar Pichai called on Google employees to be more focused. As per the report, leadership often implores staffers to be ¡°Googley,¡± which loosely means being ambitious and hardworking, with respect and teamwork in mind.
¡°Sundar, and leadership, deserve a Perf NI,¡± another highly rated meme read, referring to the lowest category in the company¡¯s employee performance review system. ¡°They are being comically short sighted and un-Googlely in their pursuit of ¡®sharpening focus.¡¯¡±?
¡°Rushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market¡¯s fear about us,¡± one highly-rated meme read. The attached photo was of a bird doing a facepalm.
While Google employees often turn to Memegen to humorously poke fun at the company¡¯s quirks and missteps, the posts after the Bard announcement struck a more serious tone and even went directly after CEO Pichai.
¡°Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic,¡± read one meme that included a serious picture of Pichai. ¡°Please return to taking a long-term outlook.¡± The post received many upvotes from employees.
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