# Google Says Its New Chatbot Meena is the Best in the World

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**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world/67708 "2020-01-31T06:28:03Z")\
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Google has released a neural-network-powered chatbot called Meena that it [claims is better than any other chatbot out there](https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615118/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world/). From a report:

 ![google chatbot meena 1Hack](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/e/c/ec69b51ded40e4d60b207940c83dc630338cb9c5.png)

- Meena was trained on a whopping 341 gigabytes of public social-media chatter – 8.5 times as much data as OpenAI’s GPT-2. Google says Meena can talk about pretty much anything, and can even make up (bad) jokes. Open-ended conversation that covers a wide range of topics is hard, and most chatbots can’t keep up.

_At some point most say things that make no sense or reveal a lack of basic knowledge about the world. A chatbot that avoids such mistakes will go a long way toward making AIs feel more human, and make characters in video games more lifelike. To put Meena to the test, Google has developed a new metric it calls the Sensibleness and Specificity Average (SSA), which captures important attributes for natural conversations, such as whether each utterance makes sense in context – which many chatbots can do – and is specific to what has just been said, which is harder._