{"id":103143,"date":"2020-03-02T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world"},"modified":"2020-03-02T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:03:17","slug":"google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has released a neural-network-powered chatbot called <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2020\/01\/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html\">Meena<\/a> that it claims is better than any other chatbot out there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data slurp:<\/strong> Meena was trained on a whopping 341 gigabytes of public social-media chatter\u20148.5 times as much data as <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614237\/openai-released-its-fake-news-ai-gpt-2\/\">OpenAI\u2019s GPT-2<\/a>. Google says Meena can talk about pretty much anything, and can even make up <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V_2Gwq5InrY\/Xi9uCfqCciI\/AAAAAAAAFOQ\/Lwj3p0jADZ4SB9npvTdOdhLH6mYcx4aMgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/image3.gif\">(bad) jokes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Open-ended conversation that covers a wide range of topics is hard, and most chatbots can\u2019t keep up. At some point most say things that make no sense or reveal a lack of basic knowledge about the world. A chatbot that avoids such mistakes will go a long way toward making AIs feel more human, and make characters in video games more lifelike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released a neural-network-powered chatbot called Meena that it claims is better than any other chatbot out there. Data slurp: Meena was trained on a whopping 341 gigabytes of public social-media chatter\u20148.5 times as much data as OpenAI\u2019s GPT-2. Google says Meena can talk about pretty much anything, and can even make up (bad) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}