We Interviewed Meta's New AI Chatbot About … Itself

Releasing a new artificial intelligence system that learns from people on the internet can be a risky proposition. Just ask Microsoft's "teen" chatbot Tay--except you can't, because Tay was taken down when it started reproducing sexist and racist remarks shortly after it launched in 2016. Meta apparently believes that AI can learn to do better. The company just announced BlenderBot 3, a much more advanced chatbot designed to learn through conversation without getting into the kind of trouble that derailed Tay. And the company has made it available for anyone to try out.