Meta Launches AI Assistant Across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
AibusinessApr 19
Meta Releases Latest AI Model, Adds Free Chatbot to Platforms
The Facts
Meta unveiled on Thursday the first two versions of its Llama 3 large language model (LLM), which the company claims can outperform much larger models including Google's trillion-parameter Gemini Pro.
The just-launched versions of the model were built with 8B and 70B parameters, a measure that indicates how much data the system is trained on. A bigger 400B-parameter model has yet to be rolled out.
The Spin
Narrative A
As Meta has begun to launch its Llama 3-powered chatbot across apps, users will now be able to ask for restaurant recommendations and access real-time information without having to bounce to a separate page. Additionally, high-quality generated images — and gifs — will be available for free, featuring a watermark label to prevent deep fakes.
Narrative B
Given that Meta's social media platforms have long been fertile ground for misinformation and extremist content, the introduction of a chatbot can only aggravate that issue due to its tendency for "hallucinations" and false responses. It's not because a technology is new that its potential harm has to be accepted.
Nerd narrative
There's a 53% chance that a member of the United States Congress will introduce legislation limiting the use of LLMs in 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.