BlenderBot
BlenderBot (1, 2, 3)
A public chatbot that criticized its own CEO — months before ChatGPT
Latest: BlenderBot 3 175B (Aug 2022)
Meta's open-domain chatbot line: BlenderBot (2020) blended personality, empathy and knowledge; BlenderBot 2 (2021) added internet search and long-term memory; BlenderBot 3 (August 2022) scaled to 175B parameters with a live public US demo that learned from conversations — months before ChatGPT made chatbots a phenomenon.
Why it matters
BlenderBot was Meta's public chatbot line before chatbots were a phenomenon: BB1 blended persona, empathy and knowledge, BB2 added search and long-term memory, and BB3 scaled to 175B with a live US demo that learned from users — months before ChatGPT. Everything, including conversation data, was released for research.
Facts
- Press had a field day when BB3 criticized its own CEO.
- All model weights, code, and even conversation data were released for research.
Try it yourself
blenderbot-400M-distill on Hugging Face ↗ BlenderBot 3 project page (ParlAI) ↗ Read the BB3 paper ↗