Recently, Meta revealed a significant update for Meta AI, its AI assistant platform that utilizes the eagerly anticipated Llama 3 large language model (LLM) that is open source. “Now the most intelligent AI assistant you can use for free,” according to the business, Regarding use case scenarios, the business highlights how it may assist customers with test preparation, meal planning, and night out scheduling. You are familiar with the procedure. An AI chatbot is what it is.
However, following a test run using Instagram direct messages last week, Meta AI has practically taken over every niche within the company’s whole portfolio. Although it’s still accessible on Instagram, users can now view it through Whatsapp, Facebook feeds, and Messenger. Additionally, the chatbot has its own dedicated website at meta.ai, you guessed it. Although it won’t produce photos, you can use it in this manner without a company login. The bot may also be used with the newly announced Ray-Ban smart glasses, and Quest headset integration will be available soon.
On the topic of image generation, Meta says it’s now much faster and will produce images as you type. It also handles custom animated GIFs, which is pretty cool. Hopefully, it can successfully generate images of different races of people. We found that it struggled with this basic concept a couple of weeks back, as it seemed biased toward creating images of people of the same race, even when prompted otherwise.
Meta’s also expanding global availability along with this update, as Meta AI is coming to more than a dozen countries outside of the US. These include Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Pakistan, Uganda and others. However, there’s one major caveat. It’s only in English, which doesn’t seem that useful to a global audience, but whatever.
As for safety and reliability, the company says Llama 3 has been trained on an expanded data set when compared to Llama 2. It also used synthetic data to create lengthy documents to train on and claims it excluded all data sources that are known to contain a “high volume of personal information about private individuals.” Meta says it conducted a series of evaluations to see how the chatbot would handle risk areas like conversations about weapons, cyber attacks and child exploitation, and adjusted as required. In our brief testing with the product, we’ve already run into hallucinations, as seen below.
AI has become one of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pet projects, along with raising really expensive cattle for beef in a secluded Hawaiian compound, but the company’s still playing catch up to OpenAI and, to a lesser extent, Google. Meta’s Llama 2 never really wowed users, due to a limited feature set, so maybe this new version of the AI assistant will catch lightning in a bottle. At the very least, it should be able to draw lightning in a bottle, or more accurately, slightly tweak someone else’s drawing of lightning in a bottle.
