Last Week in AI #180: Meta's troubled chat bot, AI in femtech, Science AI's reproducibility crises, and more!

Did Meta not learn anything from Microsoft's infamous chatbot Tay? On August 5, Meta released BlenderBot 3, an AI chatbot, to users in the US. As Meta warned, BlenderBot indeed was "likely to make untrue or offensive statements": it described Mark Zuckerberg as "too creepy and manipulative" to a reporter from Insider and claimed Trump was still president and "always will be" to a Wall Street Journal reporter. Users can flag BlenderBot's inappropriate and offensive responses, and Meta claims it has reduced offensive responses by 90 percent. Our Take: Color me amused and not surprised.