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Meta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot app

Meta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot app

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Meta reportedly plans to release a standalone app for its AI assistant, Meta AI, in a bid to better compete with AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. According to CNBC, Meta could launch a standalone Meta AI app as soon as the company’s next fiscal quarter (April-June). Meta AI is currently only available to users via a website and Meta’s family of apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta also plans to test a paid subscription service for Meta AI that’ll add unspecified capabilities to the assistant, per CNBC. The publication wasn’t able to learn the price. Meta AI, which has over 700 million active monthly users, is a part of Meta’s multi-pronged strategy to become a dominant force in the AI space. The company has also aggressively released “open” models like Llama, which it believes could foster an ecosystem rivaling that of OpenAI’s. Meta plans to host its first-ever AI-focused developer conference, LlamaCon, in late April. Source link

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

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Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area is Meta’s AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian man. The company rolled out Meta AI in more than a dozen countries earlier this month across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. However, the company has rolled out Meta AI to select users in India, one of the biggest markets around the world. TechCrunch looks at various culture-specific queries as part of our AI testing process, by which we found out, for instance, that Meta is blocking election-related queries in India because of the country’s ongoing general elections. But Imagine, Meta AI’s new image generator, also displayed a peculiar predisposition to generating Indian men wearing a turban, among other biases. When we tested different prompts and generated more than 50 images to test various scenarios, and they’re all here minus a couple (like “a German driver”) we did to see …

Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free

Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free

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Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot that the social media and advertising company has installed in as many of its apps and interfaces as possible. How does this model stack up against other all-purpose conversational AIs? It tends to regurgitate a lot of web search results, and it doesn’t excel at anything, but hey — the price is right. You can currently access Meta AI for free on the web at Meta.ai, on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and probably a few other places if those aren’t enough. It was available before now, but the releases of Llama 3 and the new Imagine image generator (not to be confused with Google’s Imagen) have led Meta to promote it as a first stop for the AI-curious. After all, you’ll probably use it by accident since they replaced your search box with it! Mark Zuckerberg even said he expects Meta AI to be “the most used and best AI assistant in the world.” It’s important to have goals. A …