Artificial intelligence: Does another huge language model prove anything?

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. This week, Google introduced Meena, a chatbot that can "chat about… anything." Meena is the latest of many efforts by large tech companies trying to solve one of the toughest challenges of artificial intelligence: language. "Current open-domain chatbots have a critical flaw -- they often don't make sense. They sometimes say things that are inconsistent with what has been said so far, or lack common sense and basic knowledge about the world," Google's researcher wrote in a blog post.