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Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

Would FB possibly put some instances up for people to chat with? It's way too heavy/expensive to host as an individual.

We are evaluating the possibility. But this is really for research only. To go beyond that we need further improvements to the safety layer.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

How do you feel about this probably being most used by bad actors trying to screw with society and elections?

On the other hand, what if this technology was used to influence society and elections in a good way?

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

How do you feel about this probably being most used by bad actors trying to screw with society and elections?

It's already happening across social media, just with software a whole lot more advanced than this.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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if anyone wants to try it, I'm hosting the small model here: https://cocohub.ai/blueprint/blender_pv1/about

Hi there. One of the original authors of the BlenderBot paper here. This cocohub website is not what we released. It appears that cocohub has removed our safety layer and provided other modifications to the bot. We released our model open source, along with specific instructions on interacting with it safely: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ It's important to note that dialogue safety is a very important and nuanced…

> specific instructions on interacting with it safely

What does it mean to interact with a bot safely? I don't see how a chat bot could harm me in any way.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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I think that one day, all of github will be slurped into a bot that will take over most engineer tasks, and while it will not replace engineers, it will make at least 60% of engineers redundant.

Are you an engineer? How is your time divided between building (i.e. coding) and deciding what to build (meetings, gathering requirements, understanding the problem, etc.)? First we will automate sooner or later. The latter will be rather more difficult.
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