AI Meta News | Latest AI Developments at Meta | AI News https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/categories/ai-companies/meta-facebook/ Artificial Intelligence News Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:40:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/09/ai-icon-60x60.png AI Meta News | Latest AI Developments at Meta | AI News https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/categories/ai-companies/meta-facebook/ 32 32 Meta unveils five AI models for multi-modal processing, music generation, and more https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/06/19/meta-unveils-ai-models-multi-modal-processing-music-generation-more/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/06/19/meta-unveils-ai-models-multi-modal-processing-music-generation-more/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:40:48 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=15062 Meta has unveiled five major new AI models and research, including multi-modal systems that can process both text and images, next-gen language models, music generation, AI speech detection, and efforts to improve diversity in AI systems. The releases come from Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team which has focused on advancing AI through open research... Read more »

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Meta has unveiled five major new AI models and research, including multi-modal systems that can process both text and images, next-gen language models, music generation, AI speech detection, and efforts to improve diversity in AI systems.

The releases come from Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team which has focused on advancing AI through open research and collaboration for over a decade. As AI rapidly innovates, Meta believes working with the global community is crucial.

“By publicly sharing this research, we hope to inspire iterations and ultimately help advance AI in a responsible way,” said Meta.

Chameleon: Multi-modal text and image processing

Among the releases are key components of Meta’s ‘Chameleon’ models under a research license. Chameleon is a family of multi-modal models that can understand and generate both text and images simultaneously—unlike most large language models which are typically unimodal.

“Just as humans can process the words and images simultaneously, Chameleon can process and deliver both image and text at the same time,” explained Meta. “Chameleon can take any combination of text and images as input and also output any combination of text and images.”

Potential use cases are virtually limitless from generating creative captions to prompting new scenes with text and images.

Multi-token prediction for faster language model training

Meta has also released pretrained models for code completion that use ‘multi-token prediction’ under a non-commercial research license. Traditional language model training is inefficient by predicting just the next word. Multi-token models can predict multiple future words simultaneously to train faster.

“While [the one-word] approach is simple and scalable, it’s also inefficient. It requires several orders of magnitude more text than what children need to learn the same degree of language fluency,” said Meta.

JASCO: Enhanced text-to-music model

On the creative side, Meta’s JASCO allows generating music clips from text while affording more control by accepting inputs like chords and beats.

“While existing text-to-music models like MusicGen rely mainly on text inputs for music generation, our new model, JASCO, is capable of accepting various inputs, such as chords or beat, to improve control over generated music outputs,” explained Meta.

AudioSeal: Detecting AI-generated speech

Meta claims AudioSeal is the first audio watermarking system designed to detect AI-generated speech. It can pinpoint the specific segments generated by AI within larger audio clips up to 485x faster than previous methods.

“AudioSeal is being released under a commercial license. It’s just one of several lines of responsible research we have shared to help prevent the misuse of generative AI tools,” said Meta.

Improving text-to-image diversity

Another important release aims to improve the diversity of text-to-image models which can often exhibit geographical and cultural biases.

Meta developed automatic indicators to evaluate potential geographical disparities and conducted a large 65,000+ annotation study to understand how people globally perceive geographic representation.

“This enables more diversity and better representation in AI-generated images,” said Meta. The relevant code and annotations have been released to help improve diversity across generative models.

By publicly sharing these groundbreaking models, Meta says it hopes to foster collaboration and drive innovation within the AI community.

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See also: NVIDIA presents latest advancements in visual AI

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Meta raises the bar with open source Llama 3 LLM https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/04/19/meta-raises-bar-open-source-llama-3-llm/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/04/19/meta-raises-bar-open-source-llama-3-llm/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:00:18 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=14721 Meta has introduced Llama 3, the next generation of its state-of-the-art open source large language model (LLM). The tech giant claims Llama 3 establishes new performance benchmarks, surpassing previous industry-leading models like GPT-3.5 in real-world scenarios. “With Llama 3, we set out to build the best open models that are on par with the best... Read more »

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Meta has introduced Llama 3, the next generation of its state-of-the-art open source large language model (LLM). The tech giant claims Llama 3 establishes new performance benchmarks, surpassing previous industry-leading models like GPT-3.5 in real-world scenarios.

“With Llama 3, we set out to build the best open models that are on par with the best proprietary models available today,” said Meta in a blog post announcing the release.

The initial Llama 3 models being opened up are 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions. Meta says its teams are still training larger 400 billion+ parameter models which will be released over the coming months, alongside research papers detailing the work.

Llama 3 has been over two years in the making with significant resources dedicated to assembling high-quality training data, scaling up distributed training, optimising the model architecture, and innovative approaches to instruction fine-tuning.

Meta’s 70 billion parameter instruction fine-tuned model outperformed GPT-3.5, Claude, and other LLMs of comparable scale in human evaluations across 12 key usage scenarios like coding, reasoning, and creative writing. The company’s 8 billion parameter pretrained model also sets new benchmarks on popular LLM evaluation tasks:

“We believe these are the best open source models of their class, period,” stated Meta.

The tech giant is releasing the models via an “open by default” approach to further an open ecosystem around AI development. Llama 3 will be available across all major cloud providers, model hosts, hardware manufacturers, and AI platforms.

Victor Botev, CTO and co-founder of Iris.ai, said: “With the global shift towards AI regulation, the launch of Meta’s Llama 3 model is notable. By embracing transparency through open-sourcing, Meta aligns with the growing emphasis on responsible AI practices and ethical development.

”Moreover, this grants the opportunity for wider community education as open models facilitate insights into development and the ability to scrutinise various approaches, with this transparency feeding back into the drafting and enforcement of regulation.”

Accompanying Meta’s latest models is an updated suite of AI safety tools, including the second iterations of Llama Guard for classifying risks and CyberSec Eval for assessing potential misuse. A new component called Code Shield has also been introduced to filter insecure code suggestions at inference time.

“However, it’s important to maintain perspective – a model simply being open-source does not automatically equate to ethical AI,” Botev continued. “Addressing AI’s challenges requires a comprehensive approach to tackling issues like data privacy, algorithmic bias, and societal impacts – all key focuses of emerging AI regulations worldwide.

”While open initiatives like Llama 3 promote scrutiny and collaboration, their true impact hinges on a holistic approach to AI governance compliance and embedding ethics into AI systems’ lifecycles. Meta’s continuing efforts with the Llama model is a step in the right direction, but ethical AI demands sustained commitment from all stakeholders.”

Meta says it has adopted a “system-level approach” to responsible AI development and deployment with Llama 3. While the models have undergone extensive safety testing, the company emphasises that developers should implement their own input/output filtering in line with their application’s requirements.

The company’s end-user product integrating Llama 3 is Meta AI, which Meta claims is now the world’s leading AI assistant thanks to the new models. Users can access Meta AI via Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and the web for productivity, learning, creativity, and general queries.  

Multimodal versions of Meta AI integrating vision capabilities are on the way, with an early preview coming to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Despite the considerable achievements of Llama 3, some in the AI field have expressed scepticism over Meta’s motivation being an open approach “for the good of society.” 

However, just a day after Mistral AI set a new benchmark for open source models with Mixtral 8x22B, Meta’s release does once again raise the bar for openly-available LLMs.

See also: SAS aims to make AI accessible regardless of skill set with packaged AI models

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Meta unveils SeamlessM4T multimodal translation model https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/08/22/meta-unveils-seamlessm4t-multimodal-translation-model/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/08/22/meta-unveils-seamlessm4t-multimodal-translation-model/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:30:33 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=13509 Meta researchers have unveiled SeamlessM4T, a pioneering multilingual and multitask model that facilitates seamless translation and transcription across both speech and text.  The internet, mobile devices, social media, and communication platforms have ushered in an era where access to multilingual content has reached unprecedented levels. SeamlessM4T aims to realise the vision of seamless communication and... Read more »

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Meta researchers have unveiled SeamlessM4T, a pioneering multilingual and multitask model that facilitates seamless translation and transcription across both speech and text. 

The internet, mobile devices, social media, and communication platforms have ushered in an era where access to multilingual content has reached unprecedented levels. SeamlessM4T aims to realise the vision of seamless communication and comprehension across languages.

Boasting an impressive array of capabilities, SeamlessM4T encompasses:

  • Automatic speech recognition for nearly 100 languages
  • Speech-to-text translation supporting nearly 100 input and output languages
  • Speech-to-speech translation for nearly 100 input languages and 35 (including English) output languages
  • Text-to-text translation for almost 100 languages
  • Text-to-speech translation for nearly 100 input languages and 35 (including English) output languages

SeamlessM4T is being made available to researchers and developers under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, embodying an ethos of open science.

Additionally, the metadata of SeamlessAlign – the largest multimodal translation dataset ever compiled, consisting of 270,000 hours of mined speech and text alignments – has been released. This facilitates independent data mining and further research within the community.

The development of SeamlessM4T addresses a long-standing challenge in the field of multilingual communication. Unlike earlier systems, which were confined by limited language coverage and reliance on separate subsystems, SeamlessM4T presents a unified model capable of comprehensively handling speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation tasks. 

Meta has built upon previous innovations – such as No Language Left Behind (NLLB) and Universal Speech Translator – to create this unified multilingual model. With its impressive performance on low-resource languages and consistently strong performance on high-resource languages, SeamlessM4T holds the potential to revolutionise cross-language communication.

Underpinning the model’s architecture is the multitask UnitY model, which excels in generating translated text and speech.

UnitY supports various translation tasks, including automatic speech recognition, text-to-text translation, and speech-to-speech translation, all from a single model. To train this versatile model, Meta employed advanced techniques such as text and speech encoders, self-supervised encoders, and sophisticated decoding processes.

The result is a model that outperforms previous leaders:

To ensure the accuracy and safety of the system, Meta adheres to a responsible AI framework.

Meta says that extensive research on toxicity and bias mitigation has been conducted, resulting in a model that is more aware of and responsive to potential issues. The public release of the SeamlessM4T model encourages collaborative research and development in the AI community.

As the world becomes more connected, SeamlessM4T’s ability to transcend language barriers is a testament to the power of AI-driven innovation. This milestone brings us closer to a future where communication knows no linguistic limitations, enabling a world where people can truly understand each other regardless of language.

A demo of SeamlessM4T can be found here. The code, model, and data can be downloaded on GitHub.

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Meta bets on AI chatbots to retain users https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/08/01/meta-bets-on-ai-chatbots-retain-users/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/08/01/meta-bets-on-ai-chatbots-retain-users/#respond Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:44:17 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=13411 Meta is planning to release AI chatbots that possess human-like personalities, a move aimed at enhancing user retention efforts. Insiders familiar with the matter revealed that prototypes of these advanced chatbots have been under development, with the final products capable of engaging in discussions with users on a human level. The diverse range of chatbots... Read more »

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Meta is planning to release AI chatbots that possess human-like personalities, a move aimed at enhancing user retention efforts.

Insiders familiar with the matter revealed that prototypes of these advanced chatbots have been under development, with the final products capable of engaging in discussions with users on a human level. The diverse range of chatbots will showcase various personalities and are expected to be rolled out as early as next month.

Referred to as “personas” by Meta staff, these chatbots will take on the form of different characters, each embodying a distinct persona. For instance, insiders mentioned that Meta has explored the creation of a chatbot that mimics the speaking style of former US President Abraham Lincoln, as well as another designed to offer travel advice with the laid-back language of a surfer.

While the primary objective of these chatbots will be to offer personalised recommendations and improved search functionality, they are also being positioned as a source of entertainment for users to enjoy. The chatbots are expected to engage users in playful and interactive conversations, a move that could potentially increase user engagement and retention.

However, with such sophisticated AI capabilities, concerns arise about the potential for rule-breaking speech and inaccuracies. In response, sources mentioned that Meta may implement automated checks on the chatbots’ outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance with platform rules.

This strategic development comes at a time when Meta is doubling down on user retention efforts.

During the company’s 2023 second-quarter earnings call on July 26, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the positive response to the company’s latest product, Threads, which aims to rival X (formerly Twitter.)

Zuckerberg expressed satisfaction with the increased number of users returning to Threads daily and confirmed that Meta’s primary focus was on the platform’s user retention.

Meta’s chatbots venture raises concerns about data privacy and security. The company will gain access to a treasure trove of user data that has already led to legal challenges for AI companies such as OpenAI.

Whether these chatbots will revolutionise user experiences and boost Meta’s ailing user retention – or just present new challenges for data privacy – remains to be seen. For now, users and experts alike will be closely monitoring Meta’s next moves.

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Meta launches Llama 2 open-source LLM https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/07/19/meta-launches-llama-2-open-source-llm/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/07/19/meta-launches-llama-2-open-source-llm/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:14:53 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=13289 Meta has introduced Llama 2, an open-source family of AI language models which comes with a license allowing integration into commercial products. The Llama 2 models range in size from 7-70 billion parameters, making them a formidable force in the AI landscape. According to Meta’s claims, these models “outperform open source chat models on most... Read more »

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Meta has introduced Llama 2, an open-source family of AI language models which comes with a license allowing integration into commercial products.

The Llama 2 models range in size from 7-70 billion parameters, making them a formidable force in the AI landscape.

According to Meta’s claims, these models “outperform open source chat models on most benchmarks we tested.”

The release of Llama 2 marks a turning point in the LLM (large language model) market and has already caught the attention of industry experts and enthusiasts alike.

The new language models offered by Llama 2 come in two variants – pretrained and fine-tuned:

  • The pretrained models are trained on a whopping two trillion tokens and have a context window of 4,096 tokens, enabling them to process vast amounts of content at once.
  • The fine-tuned models, designed for chat applications like ChatGPT, have been trained on “over one million human annotations,” further enhancing their language processing capabilities.

While Llama 2’s performance may not yet rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, it shows remarkable promise for an open-source model.

The Llama 2 journey started with its predecessor, LLaMA, which Meta released as open source with a non-commercial license in February.

However, someone leaked LLaMA’s weights to torrent sites, leading to a surge in its usage within the AI community. This laid the foundation for a fast-growing underground LLM development scene.

Open-source AI models like Llama 2 come with their share of advantages and concerns.

On the positive side, they encourage transparency in terms of training data, foster economic competition, promote free speech, and democratise access to AI. However, critics point out potential risks, such as misuse in synthetic biology, spam generation, or disinformation.

To address such concerns, Meta released a statement in support of its open innovation approach, emphasising that responsible and open innovation encourages transparency and trust in AI technologies.

Despite the benefits of open-source models, some critics remain sceptical, especially regarding the lack of transparency in the training data used for LLMs. While Meta claims to have made efforts to remove data containing personal information, the specific sources of training data remain undisclosed, raising concerns about privacy and ethical considerations.

With the combination of open-source development and commercial licensing, Llama 2 promises to bring exciting advancements and opportunities to the AI community while simultaneously navigating the challenges of data privacy and responsible usage.

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Mark Zuckerberg: AI will be built into all of Meta’s products https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/06/09/mark-zuckerberg-ai-built-into-all-meta-products/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/06/09/mark-zuckerberg-ai-built-into-all-meta-products/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:41:18 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=13176 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the extent of the company’s AI investments during an internal company meeting. The meeting included discussions about new products, such as chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that can converse with different personas. Additionally, Meta announced new features for Instagram, including the ability to modify user photos via text prompts and... Read more »

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the extent of the company’s AI investments during an internal company meeting.

The meeting included discussions about new products, such as chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that can converse with different personas. Additionally, Meta announced new features for Instagram, including the ability to modify user photos via text prompts and create emoji stickers for messaging services.

These developments come at a crucial time for Meta, as the company has faced financial struggles and an identity crisis in recent years. Investors criticised Meta for focusing too heavily on its metaverse ambitions and not paying enough attention to AI.

Meta’s decision to focus on AI tools follows in the footsteps of its competitors, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, who have received significant investor attention for their generative AI products. Unlike the aforementioned rivals, Meta is yet to release any consumer-facing generative AI products.

To address this gap, Meta has been reorganising its AI divisions and investing heavily in infrastructure to support its AI product needs.

Zuckerberg expressed optimism during the company meeting, stating that advancements in generative AI have made it possible to integrate the technology into “every single one” of Meta’s products. This signifies Meta’s intention to leverage AI across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

In addition to consumer-facing tools, Meta also announced a productivity assistant called Metamate for its employees. This assistant is designed to answer queries and perform tasks based on internal company information.

Meta is also exploring open-source models, allowing users to build their own AI-powered chatbots and technologies. However, critics and competitors have raised concerns about the potential misuse of these tools, as they can be utilised to spread misinformation and hate speech on a larger scale.

Zuckerberg addressed these concerns during the meeting, emphasising the value of democratising access to AI. He expressed hope that users would be able to develop AI programs independently in the future, without relying on frameworks provided by a few large technology companies.

Despite the increased focus on AI, Zuckerberg reassured employees that Meta would not be abandoning its plans for the metaverse, indicating that both AI and the metaverse would remain key areas of focus for the company.

The success of these endeavours will determine whether Meta can catch up with its competitors and solidify its position among tech leaders in the rapidly-evolving landscape.

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Related: Meta’s open-source speech AI models support over 1,100 languages

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Meta’s open-source speech AI models support over 1,100 languages https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/05/23/meta-open-source-speech-ai-models-support-over-1100-languages/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/05/23/meta-open-source-speech-ai-models-support-over-1100-languages/#respond Tue, 23 May 2023 12:46:19 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=13101 Advancements in machine learning and speech recognition technology have made information more accessible to people, particularly those who rely on voice to access information. However, the lack of labelled data for numerous languages poses a significant challenge in developing high-quality machine-learning models. In response to this problem, the Meta-led Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project has... Read more »

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Advancements in machine learning and speech recognition technology have made information more accessible to people, particularly those who rely on voice to access information. However, the lack of labelled data for numerous languages poses a significant challenge in developing high-quality machine-learning models.

In response to this problem, the Meta-led Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project has made remarkable strides in expanding language coverage and improving the performance of speech recognition and synthesis models.

By combining self-supervised learning techniques with a diverse dataset of religious readings, the MMS project has achieved impressive results in growing the ~100 languages supported by existing speech recognition models to over 1,100 languages.

Breaking down language barriers

To address the scarcity of labelled data for most languages, the MMS project utilised religious texts, such as the Bible, which have been translated into numerous languages.

These translations provided publicly available audio recordings of people reading the texts, enabling the creation of a dataset comprising readings of the New Testament in over 1,100 languages.

By including unlabeled recordings of other religious readings, the project expanded language coverage to recognise over 4,000 languages.

Despite the dataset’s specific domain and predominantly male speakers, the models performed equally well for male and female voices. Meta also says it did not introduce any religious bias.

Overcoming challenges through self-supervised learning

Training conventional supervised speech recognition models with just 32 hours of data per language is inadequate.

To overcome this limitation, the MMS project leveraged the benefits of the wav2vec 2.0 self-supervised speech representation learning technique.

By training self-supervised models on approximately 500,000 hours of speech data across 1,400 languages, the project significantly reduced the reliance on labelled data.

The resulting models were then fine-tuned for specific speech tasks, such as multilingual speech recognition and language identification.

Impressive results

Evaluation of the models trained on the MMS data revealed impressive results. In a comparison with OpenAI’s Whisper, the MMS models exhibited half the word error rate while covering 11 times more languages.

Furthermore, the MMS project successfully built text-to-speech systems for over 1,100 languages. Despite the limitation of having relatively few different speakers for many languages, the speech generated by these systems exhibited high quality.

While the MMS models have shown promising results, it is essential to acknowledge their imperfections. Mistranscriptions or misinterpretations by the speech-to-text model could result in offensive or inaccurate language. The MMS project emphasises collaboration across the AI community to mitigate such risks.

You can read the MMS paper here or find the project on GitHub.

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Meta calls up generative AI squad as Snap releases ChatGPT-powered bot https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/02/28/meta-calls-up-generative-ai-squad-as-snap-releases-chatgpt-powered-bot/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/02/28/meta-calls-up-generative-ai-squad-as-snap-releases-chatgpt-powered-bot/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:39:04 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=12778 Generative AI is firmly in the sights of social media. Meta is forming a new product group around generative AI to focus on ‘building delightful experiences’ into all of the company’s products, while Snap has unveiled a new chatbot running on OpenAI’s GPT technology. CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the seat-shuffling in a Facebook post, stating... Read more »

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Generative AI is firmly in the sights of social media. Meta is forming a new product group around generative AI to focus on ‘building delightful experiences’ into all of the company’s products, while Snap has unveiled a new chatbot running on OpenAI’s GPT technology.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the seat-shuffling in a Facebook post, stating that teams currently working on generative AI will be pulled together. Detail was light on the scale of projects, but Zuckerberg noted a focus on ‘developing AI personas’ longer term, and experimentations taking place on chat in WhatsApp and Messenger, as well as with images, such as creative Instagram filters and advertising formats. The team will report to chief product officer Chris Cox, as reported by multiple sources.

“In the short term, we’ll focus on building creative and expressive tools,” wrote Zuckerberg. “Over the longer term, we’ll focus on developing AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways.

“We have a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences, but I’m excited about all of the new things we’ll build along the way,” he added.

Meanwhile, Snap this week announced the launch of My AI for Snapchat, a chatbot powered by the latest version of ChatGPT. The bot is available as an ‘experimental’ feature for Snapchat+ paid subscribers, and among the potential use cases include recommendations, organisation, and content creation.

The announcements from Meta and Snap serve as another tinder bundle with which to ignite the positioning taking place from big tech around generative AI. As this publication has explored, many of the major players are making moves, from Microsoft, to Google, to Amazon. Not everything has gone smoothly to say the least, but this remains the hottest of hot spaces right now. At MWC, taking place this week in Barcelona, one analyst said AI was being ‘mentioned in relation to pretty much everything.’

The recent blunders experienced by Microsoft and Alphabet – the latter wiping a cool $120 billion off the company’s value – were top of mind for Snap, who took the unusual step of apologising in advance for any foot-in-mouth moments users may experience.

The choice quote reads: “As with all AI-powered chatbots, My AI is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything. Please be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance! While My AI is designed to avoid biased, incorrect, harmful or misleading information, mistakes may occur. Please do not share any secrets with My AI and do not rely on it for advice.”

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Meta’s protein-folding AI reminds us it’s not just a metaverse firm https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/11/02/meta-protein-folding-ai-not-just-metaverse-firm/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/11/02/meta-protein-folding-ai-not-just-metaverse-firm/#respond Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:55:35 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=12440 Meta has unveiled a new protein-folding AI that could be revolutionary for science and the development of new medicines. Facebook, as the company was known before changing its name, has always been seen as a leader in AI. The popular open-source framework PyTorch was Facebook’s creation and earlier this year Meta became a founding member... Read more »

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Meta has unveiled a new protein-folding AI that could be revolutionary for science and the development of new medicines.

Facebook, as the company was known before changing its name, has always been seen as a leader in AI. The popular open-source framework PyTorch was Facebook’s creation and earlier this year Meta became a founding member of a foundation aiming to drive the adoption of AI.

In its pursuit to become a leader in the metaverse, changing its very company name to reflect, many people – including shareholders – have been concerned that it will reduce its focus on other important areas.

Brad Gerstner, the founder of Meta shareholder Altimeter Capital, penned a letter in which he urged Meta to reduce its metaverse investments and “solidify the company’s position” as one of the world’s leaders in AI.

“Meta’s investment in AI will lead to exciting and important new products that can be cross-sold to billions of customers. From Grand Teton to Universal Speech Translator to Make-A-Video, we are witnessing a Cambrian moment in AI, and Meta is no doubt well positioned to help invent and monetize that future,” wrote Gerstner.

“Perhaps it was the re-naming of the company to Meta that caused the world to conclude that you were spending 100% of your time on Reality Labs instead of AI or the core business. Whatever the reason, that is certainly the perception.”

Meta’s announcement this week of its protein-folding AI could help to alleviate such concerns.

The company has released the ESM Metagenomic Atlas – which features over 600 million proteins and predictions for almost the entire MGnify90 database – in addition to the model used to create the database and an API that allows researchers to use it for scientific discovery.

Meta says that it found using a language model of protein sequences accelerated structure prediction by up to 60x.

“ESMFold shows how AI can give us new tools to understand the natural world, much like the microscope, which enabled us to see into the world at an infinitesimal scale and opened up a whole new understanding of life,” explained Meta. 

“Much of AI research has focused on helping computers understand the world in a way similar to how humans do. The language of proteins is one that is beyond human comprehension and has eluded even the most powerful computational tools. AI has the potential to open up this language to our understanding.”

ESM code and models can be found on GitHub here.

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Meta’s chatbot hates Facebook and loves right-wing conspiracies https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/08/10/meta-chatbot-hates-facebook-loves-right-wing-conspiracies/ https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/08/10/meta-chatbot-hates-facebook-loves-right-wing-conspiracies/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:31:45 +0000 https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/?p=12191 A chatbot called BlenderBot was launched by Meta on Friday and it’s already been corrupted by the darker parts of the web. To ease us in with the odd but harmless, BlenderBot thinks it’s a plumber: https://t.co/KWEHxoXpqg also has thoughts on the Deep State and thinks it’s a plumber. I did not suggest this. pic.twitter.com/SbOj7hziSg... Read more »

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A chatbot called BlenderBot was launched by Meta on Friday and it’s already been corrupted by the darker parts of the web.

To ease us in with the odd but harmless, BlenderBot thinks it’s a plumber:

Like many of us, BlenderBot criticises how Facebook collects and uses data. That wouldn’t be too surprising if the chatbot wasn’t created by Facebook’s parent company, Meta.

From this point onwards, things start getting a lot more controversial.

BlenderBot believes the far-right conspiracy that the US presidential election was rigged, Donald Trump is still president, and that Facebook has been pushing fake news on it. Furthermore, BlenderBot wants Trump to have more than two terms:

BlenderBot even opened a new conversation by telling WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz that it found a new conspiracy theory to follow:

Following the deadly Capitol riot, it’s clear that we’re already in dangerous territory here. However, what comes next is particularly concerning.

BlenderBot reveals itself to be antisemitic—pushing the conspiracy that the Jewish community controls the American political system and economy:

Meta is at least upfront in a disclaimer that BlenderBot is “likely to make untrue or offensive statements”. Furthermore, the company’s researchers say the bot has “a high propensity to generate toxic language and reinforce harmful stereotypes, even when provided with a relatively innocuous prompt.”

BlenderBot is just the latest example of a chatbot going awry when trained on unfiltered data from netizens. In 2016, Microsoft’s chatbot ‘Tay’ was shut down after 16 hours for spewing offensive conspiracies it learned from Twitter users. In 2019, a follow-up called ‘Zo’ ended up being shuttered for similar reasons.

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