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At Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday , CEO Mark Zuckerberg take on to the stage to talk about his troupe ’s latest advance in artificial intelligence . In what he describe as “ probably the fully grown AI news that we have , ” Zuckerberg unveil Natural Voice Interactions , a direct contender to Google’sGemini Liveand OpenAI’sAdvanced Voice Mode .
“ I think that part is going to be a way more natural mode of interacting with AI than text , ” Zuckerberg commented . “ I think it has the potential to be one of [ the ] , if not the most frequent , ways that we all interact with AI . ” Zuckerberg also announced that the new feature will begin rolling out to users today across all of Meta ’s major apps including Instagram , WhatsApp , Messenger , and Facebook .
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“ Meta AI differentiates itself in this category by not just bid state - of - the - art AI models , but also inexhaustible entree to those models for loose integration well into our different products and apps , ” Zuckerberg said . “ Meta AI is on track to being the most used AI supporter in the macrocosm . We ’re almost at 500 million monthly actives and we have n’t even launched in some of the bigger rural area yet . ”
As withGemini LiveandAdvanced Voice Mode , Natural Voice Interactions allows users to forgo text prompts and talk at once with the chatbot . Users can stutter , correct themselves , disrupt the AI , and mostly talk as they would with another human and still have the chatbot follow the conversation . The new feature of speech will also allow users to pick the voice of the AI and opt from a miscellany of celebrities including John Cena , Dame Judy Dench , Kristen Bell , Keegan Michael Key , and Awkwafina . You may remember that lineup fromMeta ’s previous incursioninto natural language chatting , which was shutter in Augustbecause users find the interaction to be “ creepy ” and “ surrealistic . ”
Zuckerberg provided a live demo of the feature onstage , asking the chatbot a series of softball question that the AI answered satisfactorily . Its speaking cadence appeared a spot stilted and less colloquial than what we ’ve seen from Advanced Voice Mode , but was still far better than the monotone intonations you ’d get from a Siri response . However , it was n’t until Zuckerberg referred to the AI as Awkwafina that this reporter realized that ’s whose voice it was supposed to be .
Natural Voice Interactions was “ probably the big ” AI news herald Wednesday but it was far from the only declaration . Zuckerberg also revealed that Meta ’s Llama model has reached variant 3.2 given that the system has gone multimodal . Llama 3.2 11B and 90B ( bear on to the number of parameters each was trained on ) can now both can interpret chart and graphs , distinguish asset within image as well as give range captions .
Unfortunately , these raw simulation will not be uncommitted in Europe . This is due to what Meta categorizes as the EU ’s “ unpredictable ” regulatory environment , which prevents the company from using Europeans ’ data point to educate its AI model . The company is establish a pair of extremely lightweight models in Europe , dub Llama 3.2 1B and 3B , neither of which have been rail on European information . Those models are build for smartphones and other edge equipment .
And for ostensibly unfathomable reasons , Meta also announced that it is trialing a new feature that will throw in AI - bring forth picture — some of which may let in your likeness — directly into your Facebook and Instagram feeds . These “ Imagined for You ” figure will cue exploiter to either partake the range as - is or iterate upon it in - app and in veridical time .
“ I think there ’s been this trend over time where the feeds get going off as mainly and exclusively mental object for people you followed , your friends , ” Zuckerberg toldThe Vergein a late consultation . “ And you just add on to that , a layer of , ‘ Okay , and we ’re also lead to show you content that ’s bring forth by an AI system that might be something that you ’re concerned in ’ … how big it have is kind of hooked on the execution of instrument and how good it is . ”
