If you've browsed Facebook or Instagram within the past few days, you've probably noticed some changes. Thanks to the introduction of Meta AI, artificial intelligence is now integrated into posts on your feed and the search function on both sites.Meta calls the assistant a way to "get things done, learn, create, and connect with the things that matter to you." Meta AI works much like ChatGPT and other popular AI tools, but many have voiced frustration with accidentally tapping on a query below a...
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When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: "Ask Meta AI anything." You may have opened the app to send a text to a pal, but Meta's new artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot is tempting you with encyclopedic knowledge that's just a few keystrokes away. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has planted its home-grown chatbot on its Whatsapp and Instagram services. Now, billions of internet users can open one of these free social media platforms and...
Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions
If anyone had any doubts about Meta’s long-term commitment to artificial intelligence (AI), they were erased in the first minute of the company’s earnings call on Wednesday (April 24). While analysts were waiting to hear about the return on investment in the technology would bring, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that AI is on a two-to-three-year development roadmap. AI […]
The more I read and write about AI, the firmer I get in my conviction that Big Tech incumbents absolutely must strangle the decentralized AI in its cradle before it wrecks everything.Take a look at this interview Ben Thompson did with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. I call your attention to this part in particular:From Microsoft’s perspective, is this going to be a funnel into new products or do you see it as an end goal in and of itself, winning search?KS: So I think you hit...
According to Dipset head honcho and It Is What It Is podcast’s Camron, claims that he and co-host Mase have an entire album together, but it is highly unlikely that the public will ever get a chance to heat the songs. In a recent IG Live, Cam took to the social media platform saying, “Me […] The post Camron Says He and Mase Have An Album Together, But They Can’t Put It Out first appeared on The Source.
Spending on lobbying to shape AI policy in Washington is soaring—and tech
If 2023 was the tech industry's year of the artificial intelligence chatbot, 2024 is turning out to be the year of AI plumbing. It may not sound as exciting, but tens of billions of dollars are quickly being spent on behind-the-scenes technology for the industry's AI boom. Companies from Amazon to Meta are revamping their data centers to support AI. They are investing in huge new facilities, while even places like Saudi Arabia are racing to build supercomputers to handle AI. Nearly everyone with...
Push to integrate AI into Meta products boosts financial results, but share prices tumble with weak sales forecastMeta’s drive to integrate artificial intelligence into its products yielded strong financial results for the second quarter in a row. The company plans to spend even more on AI in the coming months, though, and its share price slumped more than 15% as the company reported earnings Wednesday. A weak sales forecast and higher spending guidance rattled investors.Mark Zuckerberg said his...
How well do AI tools write code? Over the past year or so, I've been putting large language models through a series of tests to see how well they handle some fairly basic programming challenges.Also: The best free AI courses (and whether AI 'micro-degrees' and certificates are worth it)The idea is simple: if they can't handle these basic challenges, it's probably not worth asking them to do anything more complex. On the other hand, if they can handle these basic challenges, they might become...