Skip to main content

Meta boss Zuckerberg says new team is building ‘AI personas’

With the tech industry increasingly focusing on generative AI products following the whirlwind of interest in OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, Meta is keen to ensure that everyone knows that it too is taking a keen interest in the space.

In an online post on Monday, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said the company is bringing together its current AI teams to create a single group in a move designed to “turbocharge our work in this area.”

Related Videos

Zuckerberg also outlined his plans for how Meta will utilize generative AI across its range of products, among them Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The Meta boss said: “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.”

Zuckerberg said that in the immediate future, the team will concern itself with “building creative and expressive tools,” while in the longer term, it’ll focus on “developing AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways.”

He said the new, unified team is exploring experiences with text and chat in WhatsApp and Messenger, and also with images, such as filters and formats in Instagram.

The Meta CEO’s message is, it has to be said, rather light on detail, and he even admits that Meta “has a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences.”

Still, he says he’s “excited about all of the new things we’ll build along the way.”

Meta, formerly Facebook, has been engaged with AI research for a number of years, but the early buzz around ChatGPT — elements of which Microsoft has already incorporated into its Bing search engine for a more natural, conversational experience — has prompted many tech giants to double down on their efforts in the area.

To some extent, Zuckerberg’s message feels like he’s just letting everyone know that Meta isn’t betting big only on its AR/VR metaverse, which seems to have faded from view since ChatGPT landed on the scene toward the end of last year, and that the company is keeping up with trends.

His announcement comes at a turbulent time for Meta, which, like many of its competitors, recently announced mass layoffs as part of cost-cutting measures as the company at the same time seeks to boost its shrinking revenue amid an ad slump.

Editors' Recommendations

ChatGPT was down nearly all day, chat history still in progress
Close up of ChatGPT and OpenAI logo.

ChatGPT had been down for most of the day, creating an unsettling moment for the large number of people that have come to rely on the advanced AI for help with writing and coding, as well as assistance on a variety of topics.

The outage included for paid subscribers of ChatGPT Plus, which was supposed to provide priority status during peak times.

Read more
Here’s the ChatGPT word limit and how to get around it
A laptop opened to the ChatGPT website.

Fans of ChatGPT adore the AI chatbot for several purposes, including its ability to generate detailed essays in a matter of seconds. However, one of its little-known limitations is that there is a word and character limit set on how much content it can output per query.
Reddit members and other AI enthusiasts have been discussing this for months, and luckily there are easy workarounds for this limitation by way of the prompts you can use.

What is the ChatGPT word limit?
ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI. set the word and character limit as part of its ongoing development of the AI chatbot, which is still in its research preview phase. Some of the issues with ChatGPT include its affinity toward "social biases, hallucinations, and adversarial prompts," in addition to producing inaccurate content when the AI algorithm is overwhelmed or at a loss for information to process.
Similarly, ChatGPT might simply stop producing content when the request is too complex for the AI to handle. This happens at about 500 words or 4,000 characters. If you happen to give the chatbot a request for a specific number of words above 500, you might find that it cuts off midsentence somewhere after 500 words.

Read more
GPT-4: how to use, new features, availability, and more
A laptop opened to the ChatGPT website.

ChatGPT-4 has officially been announced, confirming the longtime rumors around its improvements to the already incredibly impressive language skills of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

OpenAI calls it the company's "most advanced system, producing safer and more useful responses." Here's everything we know about it so far.
Availability

Read more