BlenderBot
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BlenderBot is an open source prototype conversational agent developed by Facebook that is intended to communicate naturally with people online.ย
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.ย
It's algorithm searches the internet to inform its answers, according to Facebook owner Meta.
Based on Meta AIโs 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.
Generative artificial intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI, or GAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, videos, or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.
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Website: BlenderBot 3 ๐
Developer: Meta/Facebookย
Purpose: Provide information, communicate
Type: Chatbot
Technique: NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning
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BlenderBot 3 met with mixed reviews, with commentators pointing out that it is inaccurate, out-of-touch, biased, creates misinformation and disinformation and makes offensive comments.
Transparency and accountability ๐
Facebook flags that BlenderBot generates biased and harmful responses, and requests users to acknowledge that it is 'likely to make untrue or offensive statements' and agree 'not to intentionally trigger the bot to make offensive statements.'
In addition to putting BlenderBot 3 on the web, Meta has also provided access to the underlying code, training dataset, and smaller model variants. Access to the largest 175 billiion model is available upon request.ย
Meta says it is committed to publicly releasing all collected data from the demo.
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Type: System
Published: November 2022
Last updated: August 2024