After Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s announcement that Google was going to release Bard, some employees called the CEO out on Memegen, and not in a positive way.
Google Employees Criticize CEO For ‘Rushed, Botched’ Announcement of GPT Competitor Bard
If you read the article published last week concerning Google’s video reveal of Bard, the company’s AI chatbot, you read how Bard made an error during its online reveal and later read how Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost over $100 billion dollars in stock value due to that error.
What you may not have known was that on Monday before the actual Wednesday video reveal, Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly announced that Google was preparing to release Bard. Pichai’s announcement came one day earlier than Microsoft’s announcement of how it was going to begin using AI powered updates to its Bing search engine.
After Pichai made the announcement and an error was made during Bard’s video reveal, many Google employees began criticizing Pichai on Memegen, Google’s own internal meme generator, and some of the memes were not as funny as what is typically posted. Some were in the form of “google” talk, meaning users made posts that referenced Google terminology. For example, one user stated that the leadership and Sundar deserve a “Perf NI” which is the lowest category in Google’s employee review system. Others even referenced the release as “un-Googley,” a poke to how Google leadership has requested staff to be “Googley” or in plain language, ambitious, hard-working and focused. Others stated that the launch was rushed, botched and the administration was not able to see the full picture ahead.
It is highly likely that we will be hearing more from Google and Microsoft in the near future, as both companies continue to vie for the top-spot in AI technology.
