Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reassured his employees about the company's strategy and efforts regarding artificial intelligence. This comes after the company conducted its latest round of job cuts two weeks ago.
Founder and CEO of US online social media and social networking service Facebook Mark Zuckerberg reacts upon his arrival for a meeting with European Commission vice-president in charge for Values and Transparency, in Brussels, on February 17, 2020.
Incorporating AI into Every Product
As Meta introduced incredible and qualitative breakthroughs regarding generative AI last year, the company now has the opportunity to expand this technology and push it forward to offer a much better product than ever.
In an all-hands meeting with his employees this Thursday in the Hacker Square pavilion at Meta's Menlo Park headquarters, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company's plans to incorporate generative AI into every Meta product. Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg walks through specific AI products that the company is working on.
This includes (a) AI Agents, as Meta plans to add chatbots on Messenger and WhatsApp with different personas and usefulness, (b) AI Media Editing that will be a tool for Instagram stories for people to utilize when editing is needed, and (c) Internal Tools like AI chatbots dedicated for employees to suggest feedback and productivity assistant Metamate the can help them perform tasks.
Zuckerberg said in a statement, "We're going to play an important and unique role in the industry in bringing these capabilities to billions of people in new ways that other people aren't going to do." CNBC reported that it remains unclear when the features would be added to Meta's products as he did not reveal the release date during the meeting.
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App Researcher and Reverse Engineer Alessandro Paluzzi revealed just a few days ago that Instagram might be working on an AI chatbot that can answer questions and give advice, depending on users' picked personalities out of 30. This will help users who find it challenging to write messages or simply type a comment.
Meta's AI Efforts
Meta's AI plans are starting to come into focus as this effort from the CEO comes. While the company has still not adopted much of generative AI features yet, Endgadet reported that Zuckerberg made it clear from his previous statements that he wants Meta to be viewed as one of the frontrunners in this particular field.
The company has also not been at the center of the conversation regarding AI as other companies thrive more, including Microsoft, Microsoft-backed Open AI, and Google. Executives told employees that the company will still be committing to releasing AI research to the open-source community.
Last February, Meta revealed the expansion of its AI efforts to vast opportunities as the company formed a new team dedicated to this category. This aims to center on providing a team to work on the upcoming project called LLaMA. The newly-formed team works on delivering the experience and integrating the developed feature into Meta's social media platforms.
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