# \#facebook

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## [Hey, look! Meta/Facebook Has an AI Chatbot, and It's Really Dumb](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/hey-look-meta-facebook-has-an-ai-chatbot-and-its-really-dumb/1828)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [10 August 2022 12:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/hey-look-meta-facebook-has-an-ai-chatbot-and-its-really-dumb/1828 "2022-08-10T12:32:20Z")

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Meta (the parent company of Facebook and other shoddy and regrettable “services”) has launched “BlenderBot 3: An AI Chatbot That Improves Through Conversation” and opened it to the public, although at the moment only to …

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## [Facebook/Meta Builds 175 Billion Parameter Language Model, Discovers It Speaks “Hate Facts”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-meta-builds-175-billion-parameter-language-model-discovers-it-speaks-hate-facts/1341)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [10 May 2022 22:07 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-meta-builds-175-billion-parameter-language-model-discovers-it-speaks-hate-facts/1341 "2022-05-10T22:07:19Z")

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A paper on arXiv by a group of authors working for Facebook, which is now calling itself “Meta”, “OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models” reports the development and release of their independent large language…

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## [Two Hours with Mark Zuckerberg](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/two-hours-with-mark-zuckerberg/989)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [2 April 2022 23:10 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/two-hours-with-mark-zuckerberg/989 "2022-04-02T23:10:26Z")

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“What torture is this?”, you ask, “And what did I do to deserve it?” This is the first time I’ve heard Mark Zuckerberg in something like a conversation, as opposed to a congressional hearing or prepared sp…

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## [Facebook Is Number One!](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-is-number-one/829)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [3 February 2022 21:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-is-number-one/829 "2022-02-03T21:36:20Z")

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After reporting “disappointing” earnings for the just-completed quarter, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, stock plunged 20%: losing around US$ 200 billion in market capitalisation, which is more than the total …

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## [Why Did Facebook Fail?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/why-did-facebook-fail/59)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [9 October 2021 21:57 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/why-did-facebook-fail/59 "2021-10-09T21:57:15Z")

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While the Facebook bungle has been widely described in the media as a “DNS problem”, it seemed to me from the outset that it was more likely to be due to BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, one of the least k…