Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by vongomben » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

keanebean86 wrote: post #4

lowdose wrote: post #2

How can facebook turn a dumpster fire like reddit in a bot that response with more empathy than a human? Didn't Facebook just merge all fb messenger and whatsapp data and trained a NN on the new chat db?

You: hello Facebook! Facebook chatbot: [deleted]

Probably on /r/askhistorians lol

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by sjroot » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

robobenjie wrote: post #9

Facebook Blog post with more information and longer chat session example: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch...

Thank you. I can't really fathom why the BBC would not think to link to the _actual_ source of this news.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by ErikAugust » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

Does the chatbot find itself to be exceptionally bright master of puns?

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by tmysl » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

10% of responses will be: nice

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by rantwasp » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

rayuela wrote: post #10

How many of these reddit posts were themselves bot posts? Is it bots all the way down now?

the bots teaching the bots. (teacher bots for kid bots :O). the literal definition of machine learning

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by dis-sys » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

How can I be sure that BBC article is not written by another bot?

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by filleduchaos » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

lowdose wrote: post #2

How can facebook turn a dumpster fire like reddit in a bot that response with more empathy than a human? Didn't Facebook just merge all fb messenger and whatsapp data and trained a NN on the new chat db?

To be fair, there is plenty of content on reddit that is far more empathetic and human than that created by many other people who call it a dumpster fire from afar.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by chefkoch » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

That reminds me of Microsofts great experience with using Twitter to train their bot.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by oefrha » Wed, May 06, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

I fed the script to M-x doctor, and had a nice chat.

---

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Hi how are you today?

How do you do? What brings you to see me?

Doing well. My favorite food is cake. I just bought one because I got promoted at work!

Is it because you got promoted at work that you came to me?

Thanks so much, I just want to make my parents proud! I am an engineer.

Why do you say just might want to make your parents proud you are an engineer?

I am an environment engineer. What is it like to work in software?

How does it feel to want?

...

Full transcript: https://pastebin.com/raw/GkC5x6SQ