Google's Meena is spectacular, however AI chatbots are nonetheless "cheap imitations" of people

This text is a part of our opinions of AI analysis papers, a chain of posts that discover the most recent findings in synthetic intelligence. This week, Google offered Meena, a chatbot that may “chat about… anything.” Meena is the most recent of many efforts by way of massive tech corporations seeking to remedy one of the crucial hardest demanding situations of man-made intelligence: …
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. This week, Google introduced Meena, a chatbot that can “chat about… anything.” Meena is the latest of many efforts by large tech companies trying to solve one of the toughest challenges of artificial intelligence: …Original article
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