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AIAAIC-0879

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. 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 . Source: Wikipedia 🔗 August 2022. Blenderbot 3 accuses Marietje Schaake of being a 'terrorist' August 2022. BlenderBot 3 makes offensive, inaccurate and bizarre statements

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Facebook
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BlenderBot 1; BlenderBot 2; BlenderBot 3
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