At its annual Meta Connect convention, the US tech big unveiled Meta AI, a brand new assistant customers will have the ability to “interact with like a person” by answering prompts or providing ideas in response to queries round duties or concepts, very like lots of its rivals.
Crucially although, customers will have the ability to entry the assistant and any created inside its new AI studio from inside any of Meta’s messaging platforms.
This is the place Meta is trying to differentiate itself from its rivals, through the use of its already extensively used social platforms to place AI chatbots in entrance of customers, many for the primary time.
The firm mentioned it didn’t consider there shall be “one single super-intelligent AI that everyone uses”, however reasonably “different AIs for different things”.
This was the rationale for creating AI Studio, Meta mentioned, to allow customers to “create your own AI that’s aligned with your goals, whether you’re a small business, a creator, or anyone really”.
The firm demonstrated a number of AIs it had created already, together with a sous chef who may supply meal ideas and a “personal editor and writing partner” known as Lily.
Meta mentioned these completely different chatbots could be given their very own profiles on its platforms to allow customers to work together with them.
Elsewhere on the convention, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the most recent model of the corporate’s digital actuality headset – the Meta Quest 3 – and reiterated his perception that the way forward for the web could be primarily based within the digital world of the metaverse.
In this house, customers in such headsets will have the ability to work together with avatars of others in addition to AI bots.
Mr Zuckerberg mentioned the metaverse would see the “physical and digital world come together”.
The Facebook founder additionally unveiled a brand new pair of Meta smartglasses made by Ray Ban, which shall be powered by the brand new Meta AI.
“Smart glasses are the ideal form factor for you to let an AI assistant see what you are seeing and hear what you are hearing,” Mr Zuckerberg mentioned.
Over the final week, each Microsoft and Amazon have used reside occasions to show their newest improvements in AI, with Microsoft saying a brand new device known as Copilot is coming to Windows which customers can name up at any time to assist them with any computing, work or social process.
While Amazon used its product occasion final week to unveil enhancements to voice-based AI assistant Alexa that make it extra pure and conversational, and higher at understanding context and inference to assist customers full duties.
