If there was any doubt that Google was in panic mode about the huge splash made by ChatGPT, the public unveiling of its own version – Bard – overnight on Wednesday confirmed it, and demonstrated more than 143 billion reasons why.

At a media event in Paris, Google’s senior vice president for its search business, Prabhakar Raghavan, gave the first public display of what we can expect from Bard. It was accompanied by marketing material, in the form of Tweets and blog posts ... And it didn’t go well.