Zuckerberg Outlines New AI Initiatives at Meta, in Line with Tech Trends

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook-owned Meta (FB.O) is working on a new category of generative AI models that would let humans describe the world and generate aspects of it. Feb 23 (Reuters) - Facebook-owner Meta (FB.O) is working on AI research that generates worlds via speech, improving the way people talk to voice assistants and translating between languages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday, as he outlined the main steps toward building the MetaverseMetas going to build a new top-level Product Group focused on Generative AI -- AI that can generate content -- focused on building a delightful experience around that technology across all our different products, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Facebooks post on Monday. By unifying many teams working on generative AI throughout the Metas platforms, Mark Zuckerberg said, a new team will form. By creating the new team, Meta Platforms is looking to ramp up its efforts on generative AI, according to Facebooks announcement. Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta Platforms is going to be building out a new team, the work of which is expected to deliver features powered by generative AI. Zuckerberg also laid out his plans on how Meta will leverage generative AI in their product suite, including in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Their Product Suite Facebook WhatsApp. Essentially, Meta is exploring integrations of AI in the same way that Microsoft is doing with its different tools, and Snapchat is doing this right now with its "My AI" function, that could integrate components of conversational AI, such as ChatGPT and DALL E, across Facebook and InstagramIn the longer run, Meta is going to be focused on developing AI personas that can assist humans in various ways. We are focused on creating products and tools that will increase our partners businesses as well as our own in the long run. CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes Metas investments in artificial intelligence, the diverse types of content we support, and our efforts to create a better platform for creators to earn a living will make our services stand out more and more from the rest of our industry, and will fuel our successOverall, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg views the AI Meta is building, not only as a recommendation system for short-form videos, but also as a discovery engine that can show you all of the most interesting content people share on our systems. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says that he believes that the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile Internet, explaining that Horizon has a Home section where users can design their own virtual living spaces, and Workrooms. Mark Zuckerberg said during the companys fourth-quarter earnings call Feb. 1 that the metaverses reality labs -- where it is building out the metaverse -- would also fall under the "Meta" efficiencies push

We’re creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI to turbocharge our work in this area. We’re starting by pulling together a lot of the teams working on generative AI across the company into one group focused on building delightful experiences around this technology into all of our different products.”

This actually reads like it was written by an AI itself. Who says ‘delightful experiences’?

“In the short term, we’ll focus on building creative and expressive tools. Over the longer term, we’ll focus on developing AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways. We’re exploring experiences with text (like cat in WhatsApp and Messenger), with images (like creative Instagram filters and ad formats), and with video and multi-modal experiences.” will integrate conversational AI elements, like ChatGPT and DALL E, into Facebook and Instagram.