July 2021, Meta Platforms co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Yuan CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his employees to know the company is in the middle of the artificial intelligence race.
Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s AI efforts during a meeting with employees Thursday at the Hacker Square pavilion at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters, a spokesperson confirmed. It was the first event held there since before the Covid pandemic.
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Zuckerberg opened the party by talking about Meta’s recent layoffs, but he focused mostly on the company’s projects in the nascent field of artificial intelligence generation, which uses written prompts to create conversational text and compelling visuals.
“In the past year, we’ve seen some really incredible breakthroughs in generative AI — breakthroughs in quality that give us the opportunity now to take this technology, push it forward, and bring It’s baked into every one of our products,” Zuckerberg said, according to a statement shared with CNBC. “We will play an important and unique role in the industry, bringing these capabilities to billions of people in new ways that no one else will.”
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While Meta has long touted its investments in AI, the company has not been at the center of conversations about the latest consumer applications from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google and Microsoft itself.
At Thursday’s meeting, Zuckerberg and other Meta executives detailed some of the company’s work to incorporate generative artificial intelligence models into the Metaverse, the nascent virtual world Meta is pouring billions of dollars each quarter into. , trying to make it happen. In particular, they talked about how AI helped create the 3D visuals of the Metaverse.
Meta says it is giving employees access to several internally generated AI tools to help develop prototypes, and the company is hosting a hackathon for employees to showcase their AI projects.
The company also plans to launch a service for Instagram users that will allow them to edit photos with text prompts and share them in the app’s Stories feature.
Additionally, Meta plans to eventually offer its Messenger and WhatsApp services the ability to engage users with more sophisticated AI chatbots as a form of entertainment.
Meta executives told employees the company remains committed to releasing AI research to the open-source community.However, they do not address recent letter From Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) about the public leak of the company’s LLaMA language model and “its involvement in spam, fraud, malware, invasion of privacy, harassment, and other wrongdoing and harm.”
Last week, Meta told employees they would need to work three days a week in the company’s offices starting in September. Amazon and Google have also changed their previous work-from-home policies in recent months.
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