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Meta Tests New AI Features Across Apps in Bid To Boost Appeal
7Dec By adminNo Comments
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Meta Tests New AI Features Across Apps in Bid To Boost Appeal

[ad_1] Meta Platforms Inc. is betting artificial intelligence will convince people to spend more time on its social media apps next year and is using the technology to make the biggest changes across its platforms since introducing short-form video Reels in 2020.The company is currently testing more than 20 different generative AI features from search to ads, business messaging and more, across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Eventually it will apply those tools globally.  “We always come back to, ‘How do we create a better community? How do we help people express themselves? How do we build more useful products,'” Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta's vice president of generative AI, said in an interview. “That generally shows up in the metrics if we do a good job. We see more usage, pos...
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Meta prepares AI-powered chatbots in attempt to retain users
1Aug By adminNo Comments
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Meta prepares AI-powered chatbots in attempt to retain users

[ad_1] Meta Platforms is preparing to launch a range of artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbots that exhibit different personalities as soon as September, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.Meta has been designing prototypes for chatbots that can have humanlike discussions with its users, as the company attempts to boost its engagement with its social media platforms, according to the report, citing people with knowledge of the plans. The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant is even exploring a chatbot that speaks like Abraham Lincoln and another that advises on travel options in the style of a surfer, the report added. The purpose of these chatbots will be to provide a new search function as well as offer recommendations. The report comes as Meta executives are fo...
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Meta’s Pricey Bet on AI Comes With New Custom Chips, Coder Tools
19May By adminNo Comments
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Meta’s Pricey Bet on AI Comes With New Custom Chips, Coder Tools

[ad_1] In Meta Platforms Inc.'s year of cost cutting and layoffs, there's one area that's seeing record spending: an update of the social media giant's infrastructure to keep pace in the artificial intelligence arms race. On Thursday, the Facebook owner unveiled a slew of new technologies, including a new chip developed in-house to help train AI faster, and a tool that helps coders get suggestions for how to build their products. The company is also revamping its data centers to make it easier to deploy AI technology. “This work reflects long term efforts that will enable even more advances and better use of this technology across everything we do,” Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in an emailed statement. The custom accelerator chip will help speed up the recommendation a...
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Meta unveils more cautious approach to ChatGPT frenzy
27Feb By adminNo Comments
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Meta unveils more cautious approach to ChatGPT frenzy

[ad_1] Facebook-owner Meta on Friday unveiled its own version of the artificial intelligence behind apps such as ChatGPT, saying it would give access to researchers to find fixes to the technology's potential dangers.Meta described its own AI, called LLaMA, as a "smaller, more performant" model designed to "help researchers advance their work," in what could be seen as veiled criticism of Microsoft's decision to release the technology widely, while keeping the programming code secret. Microsoft-backed ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate finely crafted texts such as essays or poems in just seconds using technology known as large language models (or LLM). LLM is part of a field known as generative AI that also includes the capacity to execute images, designs...
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