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Meta has latest artificial intelligence tools and celebrity-endorsed digital assistants that CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes will help eventually help jumpstart the metaverse.
Zuckerberg showed off the AI software in addition to the corporate’s latest Quest 3 virtual reality headset and latest Ray-Ban smart glasses on Wednesday at Meta’s Connect conference for VR developers at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Users of Facebook’s various chatting apps like WhatsApp and Messenger will soon have the option to share digital stickers that might be robotically created via written prompts, capitalizing on the recognition of technology like ChatGPT.
For instance, users can write the prompt “pizza playing basketball” to generate a goofy looking digital sticker of a cartoonish pizza slice holding a basketball.
Zuckerberg also introduced latest AI-powered editing tools coming next month to Instagram that can let users alter their photos and pictures with written prompts. He showed in an illustration how various prompts could modify considered one of his childhood photos to picture the young executive wearing an unsightly sweater in a single image and sporting blue hair in one other. He also converted a photograph of his dog Beast to resemble something akin to an origami figurine.
Powering the brand new AI tools is the corporate’s Emu computer vision model, which Zuckerberg characterised as a sort of sibling technology to its Llama family of language-generating software. The Emu software can generate images in around five seconds, he said.
“My kids tell me it’s still not fast enough, but five seconds gets to some extent where you are really cooking,” Zuckerberg said.
Users will eventually have the option to robotically generate realistic visuals inside Meta’s chat tools similar to how people use the Midjourney AI app inside the Discord messaging service.
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The corporate’s latest Meta AI digital assistant is like ChatGPT, which generates sophisticated answers to text queries. The digital assistant can access Microsoft’s Bing search engine to help it compile responses to prompts that require real-time information, Zuckerberg said.
Meta has partnered with various celebrities like Paris Hilton, Mr. Beast and Kendall Jenner to represent digital characters. Users can ask a digital assistant named Lorena, who’s played by the celebrity Padma Lakshmi, questions related to travel, and Lorena will presumably offer travel-specific suggestions. Or they’ll play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with a narrator called a dungeon master played by the rapper Snoop Dog.
Zuckerberg said users will eventually have the option to create their very own digital assistants, but the corporate wants to test that ability with select businesses before rolling it out more widely.
The grand plan is for people to interact with these AI-powered digital assistants in the corporate’s yet-to-be built metaverse, the digital universe that is costing Meta billions of dollars 1 / 4 because it tries to create the next-generation computing platform.
While Zuckerberg continues to be all-in on the metaverse, he’s talking loads more about AI than at past Connect conferences. He said the corporate’s AI investments are linked with constructing the muse for the metaverse, as illustrated by its latest Ray-Ban smart glasses developed with EssilorLuxottica. The brand new glasses, which is able to cost $299 after they’re available to purchase on Oct. 17, come embedded with Meta’s AI software so people can discover landmarks or translate signs when taking a look at various objects.
“Before this last 12 months of AI breakthroughs, I sort of thought that smart glasses were only really going to turn into ubiquitous once we actually dialed in, you realize, the holograms and the displays and all of that stuff, which we’re making progress on,” Zuckerberg said.
Now, Zuckerberg said, “I feel that the AI a part of that is going to be just as vital,” because AI makes smart glasses more compelling.
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