@ct_bergstrom I was in for quite the shock too, I've heard about the google engineer who got sucked into believing LaMDA was sentient, so I expected this to be at least good enough to hold a cohesive conversation, but nope.
It's so dumb that it was difficult for me to extract the prompt after injecting it, because it just couldn't follow my instructions precisely unlike Bing, I was only able to get a vague idea of it and extract the likely format of search snippets, a list of 5 short results.