Meta announces AI chatbots with 'personality'

[Social Media]

 

Meta has announced a series of new chatbots to be used in its Messenger service.

The chatbots will have "personality" and specialise in certain subjects, like holidays or cooking advice.

It is the latest salvo in a chatbot arms race between tech companies desperate to produce more accurate and personalised artificial intelligence.

The chatbots are still a work in progress with "limitations", said boss Mark Zuckerberg.

In California, during Meta's first in-person event since before the pandemic, Mr Zuckerberg said that it had been an "amazing year for AI".

The company is calling its main chatbot "Meta AI" and can be used in messaging. For example, users can ask Meta AI questions in chat "to settle arguments" or ask other questions.

 

The BBC has not yet tested the chatbot which is based on Llama 2, the large language model that the company released for public commercial use in July.

Several celebrities have also signed up to lend their personalities to different types of chatbots, including Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner.

The idea is to create chatbots that are not just designed to answer questions.

"This isn't just going to be about answering queries," Zuckerberg said. "This is about entertainment".

According to Meta, NFL star Tom Brady will play an AI character called 'Bru', "a wisecracking sports debater" and YouTube star MrBeast will play 'Zach', a big brother "who will roast you".

 

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[Crossy]

"Bill, we've got to stop it, or someday someone will telephone the planet Earth and get the answer, 'Honest, boss, there's nobody here anywhere but us complicated thinking machines!' "

 

Isaac Asimov - "Nobody here but" 1953.

[2baht]

Mark who???

[sirineou]

29 minutes ago, Social Media said:

The chatbots will have "personality"

Oh christ!! I hope nothing like my personality. 

[impulse]

When is Zuck going to get himself a personality?

 

[Crossy]

7 minutes ago, impulse said:

When is Zuck going to get himself a personality?

 

 

It's being used as a model for the chatbot.

[impulse]

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

It's being used as a model for the chatbot.

If that's the case, all they need is an 80286 computer and a 9600 baud modem to convey the wide range and all the richness...