Last Week in AI #180: Meta's troubled chat bot, AI in femtech, Science AI's reproducibility crises, and more!

Meta's AI chatbot spews conspiracy theories, how AI-based health apps are applied in femtech, and common AI misuses are causing a reproducibility crisis in the sciences.

Aug 15, 2022

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Meta’s AI chatbot says Trump will always be president and repeats anti-Semitic conspiracies

Meta and Facebook logos are seen in this illustration taken February 15, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Did Meta not learn anything from Microsoft's infamous chatbot Tay? On August 5, Meta released BlenderBot 3, an AI chatbot, to users in the US. As Meta warned, BlenderBot indeed was "likely to make untrue or offensive statements": it described Mark Zuckerbe…

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