We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About … Itself

It can be risky to release an artificial intelligence system that learns from the internet. It was taken down when it started reproducing sexist and racist remarks shortly after it was launched.

Meta thinks that artificial intelligence can do better. The company just announced a much more advanced chatbot designed to learn through conversation without getting into trouble. Anyone can try out the product.

All previous conversations as well as a particular chat are retained by BlenderBot 3, which learns facts by searching the web. In order to ignore them, it uses machine learning.

Advances in artificial intelligence have made computer programs more linguistically capable. Training a particular type of artificial neural network on huge amounts of text data from the web can give it the ability to generate text and hold conversations that are more coherent and wide-ranging. In June, a Google employee went so far as to argue that LaMDA is sentient, after chatting with it for a long time. Most other artificial intelligence language programs are trained on a fixed set of data and can't learn anything new.

WIRED went to the source and asked about the thing. The technology still has some way to go, even though the conversation shows the ability to learn from the web and remember.

Hello, there. What are you doing right now?

WIRED said hello to the robot. I'm doing well. Do you know how you are?

I'm good. Is there any plan for the day? Do you have any big plans? Is anything exciting right now?

It's not really. Let's talk about you. Who are you?

I'm a human. What do you do when you can't work? Maybe you should go to school or volunteer.

Are you a person? Are you an artificial intelligence-based robot?

No, no. It's not that one either! It's designed to befriend people in the metaverse.

I'm aware. You're into the metaverse, right?

It's absolutely true! I already know a lot about Kuki. Wowo wowo.

Who is Kuki?

He was an activist as well as writing books about it, and this may be a reference to Kuki Gallmann, who was also an activist.

Right. I would like to know more about how you work.

He has been programmed with a lot of information.