ANTON HARBER: Racist, ignorant and brutally honest, BlenderBot3 is all too human
Meta’s artificial intelligence robot is consistently inconsistent as it learns from the internet
11 August 2022 - 13:44
The media story of the week has to be Meta’s publicly available trial of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, BlenderBot3. The Facebook company made the robot available online for anyone in the US to try it out. You just log on, exchange greetings and start the conversation.
It turns out the robot offers a mix of inanity, brutal honesty, ignorance, stupidity, malicious disinformation, fantasy, racism and anti-Semitism. It is more human than we might have expected...
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