Meta introduces AI device as chatbot curiosity grows

Google has a mannequin known as LaMDA, or Language Mannequin for Dialogue Purposes. The web search and promoting chief is testing a chat-based, AI-powered search product known as Bard, which additionally nonetheless has some glitches.

Meta beforehand launched a big language mannequin known as OPT-175B, however LLaMA is a more moderen and extra superior system. One other mannequin Meta launched late final 12 months, Galactica, was rapidly pulled again after researchers found it was routinely sharing biased or inaccurate data with individuals who used it.

Zuckerberg has made AI a high precedence inside the corporate, usually speaking about its significance to bettering Meta’s merchandise on earnings convention calls and in interviews. Whereas LLaMA just isn’t being utilized in Meta merchandise now, it’s attainable that it is going to be sooner or later. Meta for now depends on AI for every kind of capabilities, together with content material moderation and rating materials that seems in person feeds. 

Making the LLaMA mannequin open-source permits outsiders to see extra clearly how the system works, tweak it to their wants and collaborate on associated initiatives. Final 12 months, Massive Science and Hugging Face launched BLOOM, an open-source LLM that was meant to make this type of expertise extra accessible.

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