2023-09-28 22:47:00
The new tools will enable users to build images and have conversations with Meta’s AI model
Meta has launched new artificial intelligence tools and digital assistants in the likeness of some celebrities, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes they will help kick-start the shift.
Zuckerberg showed off the artificial intelligence software as well as the company’s new “Quest 3” virtual reality headset and the latest Ray-Ban smart glasses on Wednesday at the “Meta’s Connect” conference for virtual reality developers at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Users of various Facebook chat applications such as WhatsApp and Messenger will soon be able to share digital stickers that can be automatically generated via written prompts, taking advantage of the popularity of technology such as ChatGPT.
For example, users can type “pizza plays basketball” to create a digital sticker that looks like a cartoon pizza slice holding a basketball.
Zuckerberg also introduced new editing tools powered by artificial intelligence, which will come next month to Instagram, which is owned by Meta, and which will allow users to change their photos through written prompts. He showed in a demo how different prompts might edit one of his childhood photos to depict him wearing an ugly sweater in one photo and his blue hair in another.
The company’s “Emu” computer model powers the new AI tools. He described the technology as a sister to the Llama family of language generation software. Emu can create images in regarding 5 seconds, he said.
While the company’s new “Meta AI” digital assistant is similar to “ChatGPT”, which generates sophisticated answers to text queries. Zuckerberg said the digital assistant can access the Microsoft Bing search engine to help it collect responses to prompts that require real-time information.
Meta has partnered with many celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Mr. Best, and Kendall Jenner to represent digital characters. For example, users can ask travel-related questions to a digital assistant named Lorena – played by famous actress Padma Lakshmi – and Lorena is supposed to provide travel tips. Or they can play Dungeons & Dragons with a narrator called the Dungeon Master, played by rapper Snoop Dogg.
Zuckerberg said that users will eventually be able to create their own digital assistants, but the company wants to test this ability with selected companies before rolling it out more broadly.
The big plan is for people to interact with these AI-powered digital assistants in the company’s yet-to-be-built “Metaverse,” a digital world that is costing Meta billions of dollars a quarter as it tries to create a next-generation computing platform.
Although Zuckerberg is still involved in the transformation world, he talks a lot more regarding artificial intelligence than he did at previous Connect conferences. He said that the company’s investments in artificial intelligence are linked to building the foundation for the metaverse, as evidenced by the latest Ray-Ban smart glasses developed with EssilorLuxottica. The new glasses, which will cost $299 when they are available for purchase on October 17, come built-in with “Meta’s AI” software so people can identify landmarks or translate landmarks when looking at different things.
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