Meta Says The Company’s New Chatbot, Called Blenderbot 3, Can Experience “Illusion” Sensations.

Meta is one of the most active companies in artificial intelligence research. You can test its efforts’ results right now by conversing with Meta’s new AI. BlenderBot 3 set the record for the most artificial intelligence parameters (175 billion).

This feature makes Meta’s new chatbot able to talk about almost anything; But according to this company, it is impossible to be sure of the complete accuracy of the statements of this artificial intelligence; Because it can have an “illusion.”

According to ExtremeTech, the name of the new artificial intelligence robot Meta is derived from the company’s engineers’ approach to building it. After years of research in conversational artificial intelligence, the team is convinced that examples that combine multiple conversational skills perform better than examples that use only one conversational skill at a time.

Blender Bot 3 is supposed to be a big step toward artificial intelligence that can understand the context and enter into dialogue with humans in different contexts. Of course, this does not mean that the meta bot will always be completely honest with you.

Before introducing the Blender Bot 3 demo, which is only available to US users, Meta warns that humans shouldn’t take it too seriously.

This program is designed to integrate its memory with information extracted from the Internet, But it’s also possible to say wrong or offensive things.

It is reminiscent of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence disaster known as Tay in 2016, A chatbot that, after a few days of interacting with humans on Twitter, became one of the sources of the Nazis.

Blender Bot 3 uses filters that should reduce aggressive responses by about 90%, But Meta admits that the chatbot may be delusional. According to the company, its new artificial intelligence is convinced of unrealistic truths and can even forget it’s a robot. In tests, it didn’t take long for the robot to be confident that it was a human. The AI ​​even claimed to be from Texas and told stories about his mother, insisting that it was 5:00 p.m. when the actual time was 3:30 p.m., which is an absolute illusion.

Meta’s new AI looks very real despite its illusions.

Meanwhile, Google is trying to make its LaMDA AI-based chatbots, which debuted in 2021, more realistic. LaMDA is trained for casual understanding with a smaller parameter model than Meta AI (137 billion parameters). This chatbot is more conversational and outgoing than most people you’ve probably met.

The performance of this artificial intelligence was such that even one of Google’s engineers claimed to have reached self-awareness. Google later rejected a claim, leading to the dismissal of the company’s engineer. However, do you think the day will come when cars can dream of electric sheep?