Why Meta's bots are back

A new public chatbot test brings the company lots of new data — and not a little risk

“blender with a speech bubble above its head, digital art,” as interpreted by OpenAI’s DALL-E

Today, let’s catch up about chatbots. It’s a technology that looked like the next big thing for a while, but faded into the background after failing to live up to users’ expectations. But a recent controversy over whether the current generation of bots is “senti…