THE Goal company that owns the Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp announced this Wednesday (25) that it is adding celebrity voices to your artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, the Meta AI . Now, the uusers of these social networks will be able to talk to voices that sound a lot like John Cena and Judi Dench — it won’t be real actors, but a trained AI chatbot.
Now, instead of simply messaging with the chatbot, users can have real-time conversations and choose from a selection of computer-generated or celebrity voices. The company partnered with Cena and Dench, as well as actors Kristen Bell, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key, to train the chatbot to replicate their voices.
THE The update comes as Meta seeks to bring its AI chatbot up to speed with competitors’ products, including ChatGPT, which is launching its own advanced voice mode.
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta AI is on track to be “the most used AI assistant in the world” by the end of this year, likely helped by the more than 3 billion people who use it the company’s apps every day, though it’s unclear how the company is measuring chatbot usage and how often people interact with the tool.
The rival OpenAI was criticized earlier this year when it showed off its own real-time voice mode feature created for ChatGPT because of a demo voice that sounded remarkably like that of actress Scarlett Johansson, who said she was asked to participate in the project but declined.
OpenAI denied that the voice, dubbed Sky, was based on Johansson, but paused its use anyway. Unlike that debacle, Meta appears to have formed formal partnerships with the actors whose voices were used to train its tool.
Zuckerberg announced the new voice mode during his keynote address at the annual Meta Connect conference.where he also shared other advances in AI, a new version of the Quest virtual reality headset and updates to the company’s RayBan line of augmented reality glasses.
Among other notable announcements: Meta will now allow social media influencers to make AI versions of themselves. Previously, influencers could train AI to have text conversations with their followers; now, followers will be able to have video calls with AI versions of influencers using the tool.
Other capabilities of Meta AI
THE Meta’s AI technology will also automatically translate and dub foreign-language Reels (short Meta videos) for viewers.
So, if you speak Portuguese, but a Reel originally created in English, for example, appears in your feed, it will appear as if it had been made in Portuguese, with edits to the speaker’s mouth to make the dubbing sound natural.
You may start seeing more AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta says it will begin generating and sharing AI-generated images in users’ feeds based on their “current interests or trends,” a feature it’s calling “imagined for you” (it’s unclear whether users will be able to opt out of this if they prefer to only see content from their actual human selves).
Meta’s Quest VR headset is also getting live, AI-powered translation. A user could have a conversation with someone speaking a foreign language and within seconds hear the translation into their own language in their ear, Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg also showed off “Orion,” a prototype for a more advanced pair of tech glasses that would essentially put the power of an AR headset — like the Meta Quest or Apple’s Vision Pro — into a pair of nearly normal-looking (if somewhat bulky) glasses.
But there’s a big difference between the Orion and the Quest headset. With the headset, users look at a screen that uses a camera to display emails or photos overlaid on their surroundings, a technology known as “passthrough.” Whereas the Orion’s lenses are actually transparent and use holograms to make it appear as if your email inbox or text messages or even a live 3D rendering of a friend is floating in space right next to you.
Zuckerberg has called the Orion the “most advanced glasses the world has ever seen,” but they are not yet available for consumers to buy. The Meta CEO said the company will continue to experiment with the glasses internally and make them available to developers to build software for them ahead of an eventual consumer release.
This content was originally published in Meta announces celebrity voices for AI chatbot; find out on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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