Meta’s LLaMA
Like other big tech firms, Meta has actually been experimenting with its own AI chatbots for several years. Over the last few years, Meta has launched successive iterations of its own chatbot line, dubbed the “Blenderbot.” The “Blenderbot 3″ was launched last year, described by Meta as a “state-of-the-art conversational agent.” Despite Meta’s confidence in its product, the chatbot got fairly mixed reviews from users, with one Vox writer calling it “incompetent” and noting its obsession with weird conspiracy theories and that, at one point, it highly praised the bloodthirsty dictator Pol Pot. In a way, Meta’s Blendbot stumble presaged a lot of the bizarre episodes that have plagued more recent chatbot releases, like Bing’s “Sydney.” The kinks of this tech are such that some problems in the code seem to cause some pretty weird user-facing problems.
With the rush of new AI programs, Meta recently unveiled its own large language model, the type of algorithmic programming that can be used to bring chatbots to life. Meta’s language model is called LLaMA. However, Meta hasn’t officially launched a new chatbot tethered to that programming yet, although it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility that it will at some point soon.
