of Mark Zuckerberg The vision for AI is not as a single chatbot OpenAI's ChatGPT OR Claude of Anthropic; instead it envisions as many chatbots as there are Meta users, each filled with unique personalities and likenesses.
IN SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference on Monday, Zuckerberg said CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang for the news of Meta The study of AI, released the same day to US users. AI Studio allows anyone to create an AI chatbot modeled after themselves or a fictional character – with no code required.
“We want to empower all the people who use our products to create agents for themselves,” Zuckerberg explained.
Chatbots work on Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp and the web, and Meta has one handbook that guides interested AI creators through the process of creating one.
Huang said he was “super excited” about the AI creator and called it a “home run idea.”
He stated that the power to create AI now extends to the hundreds of millions of small businesses using Meta's products.
“We eventually want to be able to pull all of your content and very quickly rise to a business agent and be able to interact with your customers and do sales and customer support,” Zuckerberg said.
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He positioned the AI studio as the first step toward personalized AI chatbots that can help small businesses and creators interact more personally with their communities. AI personalities will be trained on the material needed to properly represent the business.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Meta's AI studio had bots like GreenThumbGuruwhich focused on gardening tips, and Sassy Psychic Priscillawhich advertised “real words, no fluff”, at the time of writing.
Zuckerberg said one of the main use cases so far for Meta AI has been emotional support. People use artificial intelligence to think through difficult social situations, such as asking their manager for a promotion.
This is where the flexibility to create different AI personalities is useful compared to a unified AI model, according to Zuckerberg.
“It's all part of this larger view that we have that there shouldn't just be one big AI,” Zuckerberg said. “We just think the world will be better and more interesting if there's a variety of these different things.”
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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan had a similar view of the future of AI.
In one June interview, Yuan told The Verge that his vision was to have an AI version of himself attend meetings, act as a personal assistant and send him meeting summaries. Custom AI robots have the potential to cut the five-day work week down to four or three days, he said.