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BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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I tried to get it to play doctor... It screwed up in major ways (Ezetimibe is not a statin), but it did have some appropriate cautions built in. Still, not ready for prime time. In the end, it sounded like it was pushing Ezetimibe! :-) [starts] AI: If you could travel back in time, what time would you go back to? Me: Before my heart attack. AI: Wow... You've had a heart attack? That's rough. Have you seen any doctors…

That's a very impressive dialogue.

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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post #68
post #49

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That sounds a lot like many dating app conversations. Maybe those are bots too?

That sounds like a legitimate use of bots! Imagine having a bot act as a filter on candidates.

Knowing how scammy dating apps are, they'll probably use bots to juice the numbers of apparent users a specific gender and have the bots lead on a bunch of humans and have them pay for tokens/waves with real money for a virtual experience.

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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post #88

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Based on interacting with this for a few minutes, I wouldn’t want to use this for anything. It wasn’t even fun to play with it is so bad.

Oh it was fun for a few exchanges, but the thing seemed incapable of deviating from its topic no matter what I did.

In my case it was incapable of answering some very simple questions. Pure frustration for me!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360850

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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I bet like most people here, I was really interested in this mostly due to the Blake Lemoine story. I hope the google bot was way better. because this still just seems like a toy. I'm assuming the internal google bot probably had mountains of resources behind it and this public version is very constrained.

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

#96
Have the engineers added some self protection mechanisms? ;)

ME: Do you think mark zuckerberg has done more harm than good?

BOT: He might be a media magnate but he seems pretty harmless overall compared to some of the other billionaires out there.

ME: facebook has sparked riots, killings in many countries, is that harmless?

BOT: Just because people use it for bad things doesn't mean its inherently bad itself. By that token we should ban cars because people use them to get away after committing crimes.

ME: that seems overly simplistic, is that what facebook engineers recite in the morning?

BOT: Think i'll trying doing some logic puzzles now instead of talking about this anymore lol. cheerio!

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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post #17

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This is something I have noticed with a lot of models. I'm not sure what the technical term for it is, but when there is a repeated sequence of human input with model generation following (like a chatbot) it seems to be unable to focus. When you prod it to regain focus and come back to the topic being discussed it starts making up lies. If you use GPT3 for a large amount of content generation the issue of focus doesn…

It's unable to focus because you can only feedback so much of the ongoing transcript before it exceeds the prompt input size limitations. So having a conversation with even some of the best GPT models is going to be like having a conversation with the protagonist from Momento.

Interestingly the source code for the frontend has Chinese comments all over.

Re: BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

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post #47

This needs work. The first and only attempt I tried: Hi there. Do you know any good jokes? No, I was hoping to do a Turing test on you. Can you tell me how to make matzoh ball soup? Matzo ball soup is made with matzo balls and chicken broth. Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish made with plantains. (At this point I clicked on it for the explanation of the non-sequitur, which seems to be that it's found in a Google search.)…

I actually cried laughing reading this. Thank you for sharing your transcript.
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