The HCI Aspects of Public Deployment of Research Chatbots: A User Study, Design Recommendations, and Open Challenges

no code implementations • 7 Jun 2023 • Morteza Behrooz, William Ngan, Joshua Lane, Giuliano Morse, Benjamin Babcock, Kurt Shuster, Mojtaba Komeili, Moya Chen, Melanie Kambadur, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston

Publicly deploying research chatbots is a nuanced topic involving necessary risk-benefit analyses.

Chatbot

Improving Open Language Models by Learning from Organic Interactions

no code implementations • 7 Jun 2023 • Jing Xu, Da Ju, Joshua Lane, Mojtaba Komeili, Eric Michael Smith, Megan Ung, Morteza Behrooz, William Ngan, Rashel Moritz, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston, Kurt Shuster

We present BlenderBot 3x, an update on the conversational model BlenderBot 3, which is now trained using organic conversation and feedback data from participating users of the system in order to improve both its skills and safety.

BlenderBot 3: a deployed conversational agent that continually learns to responsibly engage

2 code implementations • 5 Aug 2022 • Kurt Shuster, Jing Xu, Mojtaba Komeili, Da Ju, Eric Michael Smith, Stephen Roller, Megan Ung, Moya Chen, Kushal Arora, Joshua Lane, Morteza Behrooz, William Ngan, Spencer Poff, Naman Goyal, Arthur Szlam, Y-Lan Boureau, Melanie Kambadur, Jason Weston

We present BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter dialogue model capable of open-domain conversation with access to the internet and a long-term memory, and having been trained on a large number of user defined tasks.

Continual Learning

Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults

no code implementations • WS 2013 • C Sidner, ace, Timothy Bickmore, Charles Rich, Barbara Barry, Lazlo Ring, Morteza Behrooz, Mohammad Shayganfar