Employees criticised the Bard announcement on the popular internal forum Memegen, calling it "rushed," "botched," and "un-Googley," reports CNBC.
"Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic. Please return to taking a long-term outlook," read one meme that included a serious picture of Pichai.
The post received many upvotes from employees, said the report.
Another meme reads: "Rushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market's fear about us".
Moreover, on Twitter, people began pointing out that an ad for Bard offered an incorrect description of a telescope used to take the first pictures of a planet outside our solar system, the report mentioned.
"Unfortunately a simple google search would tell us that JWST actually did not "take the very first picture of a planet outside of our own solar system" and this is literally in the ad for Bard so I wouldn't trust it yet," a user tweeted.
Earlier this week, Google competitor Microsoft introduced its new Bing powered by "next-generation" ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) and also updated its Edge browser with new AI capabilities.
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