Our book with Wiley on AI

Thanks, Nisha. Thanks for your kind words. I learned a lot from you, Wil and Michael. I enjoyed being your editor! I benefited greatly from ...

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Google Meena bot

Meena is a fantastic contribution to the chatbot space. It is hard to capture the enormity of the task Google has achieved here. But we need to be careful about how we communicate the results of that research. Descriptions such as "the bot that can chat about anything" or "the best chatbot" are not necessarily useful. They distract from what is really important about this research — defining human-like conversation and exploring what role or importance there is in the chatbot world for that type of conversation.