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Google's search business doesn't have to be killed by AI chatbots – here's the ugly workaround

  • Written by: Hamza Mudassir, Lecturer in Strategy, Cambridge Judge Business School
Google's search business doesn't have to be killed by AI chatbots – here's the ugly workaroundDays numbered?Ascannio/Shutterstock

Google’s parent company Alphabet has lost a hefty US$100 billion (£83 billion) or nearly a tenth of its market value after its new AI chatbot, Bard, botched an answer to a query on an ad promoting its launch. It claimed that the James Webb space telescope took the first pictures of planets outside the...

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