Meta’s making several big moves today to advertise its AI services across its platform. The corporate has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest large language model, Llama 3, and it’s now running it within the search bar of its 4 major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp) across multiple countries. Alongside this, the corporate launched other latest features, reminiscent of faster image generation and access to web search results.
This confirms and extends a test that TechCrunch reported on last week, once we spotted that the corporate had began testing Meta AI on Instagram’s search bar.
Moreover, the corporate can also be launching a brand new meta.ai site for users to access the chatbot.
The news underscores Meta’s efforts to stake out a position as a mover and shaker amid the present hype for generative AI tools amongst consumers. Chasing after other popular services available in the market reminiscent of those from OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg claimed today that Meta AI is possibly the “most intelligent AI assistant that you would be able to freely use.”
Meta first rolled out Meta AI within the U.S. last yr. It’s now expanding the chatbot within the English language in over a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, Latest Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The corporate last week began testing Meta AI in countries like India and Nigeria, but notably, India was missing from today’s announcement. Meta said that it plans to maintain Meta AI in test mode within the country in the meanwhile.
“We proceed to learn from our users tests in India. As we do with lots of our AI products and features, we test them publicly in various phases and in a limited capability,” an organization spokesperson said in an announcement.
Latest features
Users could already ask Meta AI for writing or recipe suggestions. Now, they may also ask for web-related results powered by Google and Bing.
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The corporate said that additionally it is making image generation faster. Plus, users can ask Meta AI to animate a picture or turn a picture right into a GIF. Users can see the AI tool modifying the image in real time as they type. The corporate has also worked on making image quality of AI-generated photos higher.
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AI-powered image-generation tools have been bad at spelling out words. Meta claims that its latest model has also shown improvements on this area.
All AI things in every single place directly
Meta is adopting the approach of getting Meta AI available in as many places as it could possibly. It’s making the bot available on the search bar, in individual and group chats and even within the feed.
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The corporate said that you would be able to ask questions related to posts in your Facebook feed. For instance, in the event you see a photograph of the aurora borealis, you might ask Meta AI for suggestions about what’s the perfect time to go to Iceland to see northern lights.
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Meta AI is already available on the Ray-Ban smart glasses, and the corporate said that soon it would be available on the Meta Quest headset, too.
There are downsides to having AI in so many places. Specifically, the models can “hallucinate” and make up random, often non-sensical responses, so using them across multiple platforms could find yourself presenting a content moderation nightmare. Earlier this week, 404 Media reported that Meta AI, chatting in a parents group, said that it had a gifted and academically challenged child who attended a specific school in Latest York. (Parents spotted the odd message, and Meta eventually also weighed in and removed the reply, saying that the corporate would proceed to work on improving these systems.)
“We share information throughout the features themselves to assist people understand that AI might return inaccurate or inappropriate outputs. Since we launched, we’ve always released updates and enhancements to our models, and we’re continuing to work on making them higher,” Meta told 404 Media.
