Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his agency’s new synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered assistant — Meta AI — his answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is able to combine with Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and, finally, the corporate’s blended actuality units.
Speaking on the Meta Connect event on Sept. 27, Zuckerberg defined that Meta AI is powered by the corporate’s giant language mannequin, Llama 2, and has been inbuilt partnership with Microsoft Bing to enable customers entry to real-time info from the web.
“Meta AI is your basic assistant that you can talk to like a person.”
In addition to answering questions and speaking with customers, the newly unveiled bot can generate photos, leveraging a brand new picture era software referred to as Emu that Meta educated on 1.1 billion items of information, together with photographs and captions shared by customers on Facebook and Instagram.
Noting Meta AI’s major level of distinction from competitor ChatGPT, Zuckerberg stated that, as a substitute of making a one-size-fits-all chatbot, Meta’s overarching technique was to create completely different AI merchandise for various use instances.
As an instance, he confirmed how Meta AI could be barely completely different in every of the corporate’s social media apps, offering an instance of the way it might be added to group chats on Facebook Messenger to help with organizing journey plans.
Zuckerberg stated that Meta’s chatbots aren’t simply supposed to transmit useful info. They are additionally designed to be conversational and entertaining.
Showing off its entertainment-focused AI merchandise, Meta additionally introduced a set of chatbots based mostly on roughly 30 celebrities, together with Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg and former NFL participant Tom Brady.
According to Meta, the brand new AI assistant might be accessible on Sept. 27 for a restricted group of United States-based customers on Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta AI will even be accessible for customers of the corporate’s new good glasses, scheduled for launch on Oct. 17 for U.S. customers, in addition to its new Quest 3 VR system.
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The identical day as Meta’s Connect occasion, OpenAI introduced its chatbot ChatGPT will now not be restricted to information earlier than 2021.
The updates can be found instantly for Plus and Enterprise customers utilizing the GPT-4 mannequin, in accordance to a Sept. 27 publish on X.
Before this replace, ChatGPT suffered from an ever-widening hole in its data base. Due to the character of how AI fashions similar to generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are educated, ChatGPT’s data base beforehand led to 2021, presumably the 12 months it was finalized for manufacturing.
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