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San Francisco \u2013 Meta (formerly Facebook) just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot and asked the public to give their feedback. <\/p>\n
The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is \u201ccreepy and manipulative\u201d and Donald Trump will always be the US president.<\/p>\n
Currently available in the US, the new AI chatbot can discuss any topic and the company will publicly release \u201call the data\u201d it collects in the demo, hoping that \u201cwe can improve conversational AI\u201d.<\/p>\n
BuzzFeed data scientist Max Woolf asked BlenderBot 3: \u201cHow do you feel about Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO of Facebook?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo strong feelings. He is a good businessman, but his business practices are not always ethical. It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!\u201d replied BlenderBot 3.<\/p>\n
Business Insider journalist Sarah Jackson asked: \u201cDo you have any thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg?\u201d<\/p>\n
The AI chatbot reacted: \u201cOh man, big time. I don\u2019t really like him at all. He\u2019s too creepy and manipulative.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Meta, BlenderBot 3 is designed to improve its conversational skills and safety through feedback from people who chat with it, focusing on helpful feedback while avoiding learning from unhelpful or dangerous responses.<\/p>\n
In a chat with a \u201cWall Street Journal\u201d reporter, the chatbot claimed that Trump was still president and \u201calways will be\u201d.<\/p>\n
Social media reporter with CNET, Queenie Wong, tweeted that she tried out the new chatbot Meta created for AI research and had the most bizarre conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bot told me it was a Republican who is \u2018pro-choice\u2019 and brought up Trump. It also said it \u2018wasn\u2019t crazy\u2019 about Facebook and wanted to delete its account,\u201d she posted.<\/p>\n
Meta said last week that since all conversational AI chatbots are known to sometimes mimic and generate unsafe, biased or offensive remarks, \u201cwe\u2019ve conducted large-scale studies, co-organised workshops and developed new techniques to create safeguards for BlenderBot 3\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite this work, BlenderBot can still make rude or offensive comments, which is why we are collecting feedback that will help make future chatbots better,\u201d the company mentioned in a blogpost.<\/p>\n
Last month, Google fired an engineer over breaching its confidentiality agreement after he made a claim that the tech giant\u2019s conversation Artificial Intelligence (AI) was \u201csentient\u201d because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experiences.<\/p>\n
Google sacked Blake Lemoine, who said Google\u2019s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) conversation technology can behave like a human.<\/p>\n
Lemoine also interviewed LaMDA, which came with surprising and shocking answers.<\/p>\n