Dialog with Google Bard
Oops! Google‘s new smart assistant spots an error in yesterday’s post
I received an invite to beta test Google Bard, a new “conversational AI” tool for research assistance. So I logged on this morning and asked a few questions relating to the work I posted recently about the Katz family in East Prussia.
I can’t yet give my overall impressions about Bard, since this was just my first session, but I will say that it immediately found an error in the previous post.
The Ida Liedemann Katz who is buried in the old Jewish cemetery is not related to our Katz ancestors who are also buried there.
You can see from the Bard dialog in the image that Ida was a Berlin-born Jewish painter who lived and worked in Paslek, formerly Pr. Holland. She died there in 1938 and was the last burial in the old cemetery before the destruction of the Jewish community in the Holocaust.
That means she was not the first wife of our relation Jakob Katz, nor the mother of Amalie Katz, the cousin of our great grandmother whose parentage thus remains unknown.
I will retrace my steps to see what led me to the wrong conclusion about Ida Liedemann Katz. For now, here’s a hat tip to Bard for quickly finding what seems to have been my erroneous conclusion.
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