{"id":13289,"date":"2022-08-26T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/26\/google-has-opened-up-the-waitlist-to-talk-to-its-experimental-ai-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:15:22","slug":"google-has-opened-up-the-waitlist-to-talk-to-its-experimental-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/26\/google-has-opened-up-the-waitlist-to-talk-to-its-experimental-ai-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23321718\/google-ai-chatbot-lamda-2-test-kitchen-experimental-waitlist\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23321718\/google-ai-chatbot-lamda-2-test-kitchen-experimental-waitlist<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"83.978943479867\">\n<p id=\"zd14Ho\">Earlier this year, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/11\/23065072\/google-ai-app-test-kitchen-future-io-2022\">unveiled AI Test Kitchen<\/a> \u2014 an Android app that lets users talk to one of its most advanced AI chatbots, LaMDA 2. Today, the company is opening up registrations for early access. You can sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com\/\">here<\/a>, and Google says it will soon be letting people download the app and start chatting. (Though it\u2019s limited to US users right now.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"WM4Brk\">It\u2019s interesting, considering that Meta made an almost identical move just earlier this month, opening up <em>its<\/em> latest and greatest AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23293281\/meta-ai-chatbot-blenderbot-3-web-access-research-safety\">public consumption<\/a>. Of course, people quickly found that they could get BlenderBot to say creepy or untruthful things (or even criticize the bot\u2019s nominal boss, Mark Zuckerberg), but that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/11\/23301807\/meta-blenderbot-chatbot-ai-training-mark-zuckerberg-dislike\">kind of the whole point<\/a> of releasing these demos. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"2ovZSY\"><q>AI researchers say testing chatbots in the wild is still very helpful<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"rwpGDf\">As Mary Williamson, a research engineering manager at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), told me at the beginning of the month, many companies don\u2019t like to test their chatbots in the wild because what they say will be damaging to the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/24\/11297050\/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist\">as with Microsoft\u2019s Tay<\/a>. But for many researchers, the best way to improve these same bots <em>is<\/em> to throw them into the public arena, where the chattering populace will stress-test and manipulate them in ways no fair-minded engineer would dream of. <\/p>\n<p id=\"6mYyNQ\">\u201cThis lack of tolerance for bots saying unhelpful things, in the broad sense of it, is unfortunate,\u201d said Williamson. \u201cAnd what we\u2019re trying to do is release this very responsibly and push the research forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"aIqRc2\">It\u2019s interesting to compare Google and Meta in that regard, as Meta definitely applied fewer restrictions to interacting with BlenderBot. Google, on the other hand, is limiting conversations with LaMDA 2 to a few basic modes. As I wrote during the announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p id=\"7Vf81s\">The app has three modes: \u201cImagine It,\u201d \u201cTalk About It,\u201d and \u201cList It,\u201d with each intended to test a different aspect of the system\u2019s functionality. \u201cImagine It\u201d asks users to name a real or imaginary place, which LaMDA will then describe (the test is whether LaMDA can match your description); \u201cTalk About It\u201d offers a conversational prompt (like \u201ctalk to a tennis ball about dog\u201d) with the intention of testing whether the AI stays on topic; while \u201cList It\u201d asks users to name any task or topic, with the aim of seeing if LaMDA can break it down into useful bullet points (so, if you say \u201cI want to plant a vegetable garden,\u201d the response might include sub-topics like \u201cWhat do you want to grow?\u201d and \u201cWater and care\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"4GgJhK\">That means the potential for embarrassing slips of the virtual tongue is certainly reduced. But, I\u2019ll wager, not entirely eliminated. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23321718\/google-ai-chatbot-lamda-2-test-kitchen-experimental-waitlist\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23321718\/google-ai-chatbot-lamda-2-test-kitchen-experimental-waitlist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Earlier this year, Google unveiled AI Test Kitchen \u2014 an Android app that lets users talk to one of its most advanced AI chatbots, LaMDA 2. Today, the company is opening up registrations for early access. 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