Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot

Earlier this year, Google unveiled AI Test Kitchen -- an Android app that lets users talk to one of its most advanced AI chatbots, LaMDA 2. Today, the company is opening up registrations for early access. You can sign up here, and Google says it will soon be letting people download the app and start chatting. It's interesting, considering that Meta made an almost identical move just earlier this month, opening up its latest and greatest AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, for public consumption. Of course, people quickly found that they could get BlenderBot to say creepy or untruthful things (or even criticize the bot's nominal boss, Mark Zuckerberg), but that's kind of the whole point of releasing these demos. As Mary Williamson, a research engineering manager at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), told me at the beginning of the month, many companies don't like to test their chatbots in the wild because what they say will be damaging to the company, as with Microsoft's Tay.