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Meta is making some big moves today to advance AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded his AI chatbot with its latest large-scale language model, Llama 3, and it is now available in the search bar of his four major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp) in multiple countries. is running. In addition to this, the company also announced other new features such as faster image generation and access to his web search results.
This confirms and expands on a test TechCrunch reported last week that found the company had begun testing meta AI in Instagram's search bar.
The company also plans to launch a new meta.ai site for users to access the chatbot.
This news highlights Mehta's efforts to secure its position as a mover and shaker in the current hype for generative AI tools among consumers. Mark Zuckerberg today went after popular services on the market such as OpenAI, claiming that MetaAI is probably “the most intelligent AI assistant at our disposal.”
Meta first rolled out Meta AI in the US last year. Currently, Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The company last week began testing MetaAI in countries such as India and Nigeria, but notably, those countries were not included in today's announcement. Meta said it plans to keep Meta AI in test mode in India.
“We continue to learn from our user testing in India. As with many of our AI products and features, we test them publicly to a limited extent at various stages.” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
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Users can already ask Meta AI for writing and recipe suggestions. Nowadays, you can also seek web-related results using Google and Bing.
The company also said image generation is now faster. You can also ask Meta AI to animate your images or convert them to GIFs. Users can see his AI tools modify images in real time as they type. The company is also working on improving the image quality of AI-generated photos.
Image generation tools that utilize AI are not good at expressing words accurately. Meta claims that its new model shows improvements in this area as well.
Everything about AI, everywhere, all at once
Meta's approach is to make Meta AI available in as many places as possible. Bots will be available in search bars, personal chats, group chats, and even feeds.
The company says you can ask questions related to posts in your Facebook feed. For example, if you see a photo of the Northern Lights, you can ask Meta AI for suggestions about the best time to visit Iceland to see the Northern Lights.
Meta AI is already available on Ray-Ban smart glasses, and the company said it will soon be available on the Meta Quest headset as well.
There are also downsides to deploying AI in different locations. Specifically, using models on multiple platforms can create a content management nightmare, as models can “hallucinate” and create random, meaningless responses. Earlier this week, 404Media reported that Meta AI said during a parent group chat that there are gifted and academically disabled children attending certain schools in New York. (Parents noticed the strange messages and eventually reviewed the meta as well and removed the answer, saying the company would continue to work on improving these systems.)
“We share information within the feature itself to help people understand that the AI may return inaccurate or inappropriate output. Since its launch, we have continually updated and improved the model. , and we continue to work on making the model better,” Mehta told 404Media.