BlenderBot conversational chatbot

BlenderBot is an open source prototype conversational agent developed by Facebook that is intended to communicate naturally with people online. 

BlenderBot uses AI, can chat on 'nearly any topic' and was the first bot of its kind to combine conversational skills such as empathy, knowledge, and personality, in a single system. 

It's algorithm searches the internet to inform its answers, according to Facebook owner Meta.

Based on Meta AI’s publicly available OPT-175B language model, BlenderBot was initially launched in April 2020. Versions 2 and 3 were released in July 2022 and August 2022 respectively.