Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his agency’s new AI-powered assistant — Meta AI — his reply to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can combine with Instagram, Fb, WhatsApp and finally, its blended actuality gadgets.
Talking on the Meta Join occasion 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 permit customers entry to real-time data from the web.
“Meta AI is your primary assistant which you can discuss to love an individual.”
Along with answering questions, and speaking with customers, the newly unveiled bot can generate photographs, leveraging a brand new picture era device known as Emu that Meta educated on 1.1 billion items of knowledge, together with photographs and captions shared by customers on Fb and Instagram.
Noting Meta AI’s predominant 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 totally different AI merchandise for various use instances.
For instance, he confirmed how Meta AI could be barely totally different in every of the corporate’s social media apps, offering an instance of the way it could possibly be added to group chats on Fb Messenger to help with organizing journey plans.
Zuckerberg stated that Meta’s chatbots aren’t simply meant to transmit useful data. They’re additionally designed to be conversational and entertaining.
Exhibiting 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.
In accordance with Meta, the brand new AI assistant shall be out there from Sept. 27 for a restricted group of United States-based customers on Fb Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Meta AI can even be out there for customers of the corporate’s new sensible glasses scheduled for launch on Oct. 17 for U.S. customers, in addition to its new Quest 3 VR machine.
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The identical day as Meta’s Join occasion, OpenAI introduced its chatbot ChatGPT will 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 with a Sept. 27 publish on X.
Earlier than this replace, ChatGPT suffered from an ever-widening hole in its information base. Because of the nature of how AI fashions comparable to generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are educated, ChatGPT’s information base beforehand led to 2021. Presumably the yr it was finalized for manufacturing.
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