French AI Chatbot Taken Offline After Providing Nonsensical Answers
A French-language artificial intelligence chatbot, backed by the French government, has been taken offline due to its bizarre responses to simple mathematical equations and user queries. The chatbot, named Lucie, was launched with the goal of reducing the dominance of English-language AI models and offering a French alternative to tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, Lucie's performance was marred by embarrassing mistakes. When asked to solve a basic math problem, Lucie incorrectly calculated 5 × (3+2) as 17 instead of 25. It also claimed that "the square root of a goat is one," leaving users bewildered. But what really took the…
