Meta Platforms Inc. is building a "top-level product group" that's focused on generative AI technologies, according to Mark Zuckerberg. In a Facebook post today, the CEO said Meta has started pulling together various teams working on generative AI across the company into a single group that's "focused on building delightful experiences around this technology." More: - Specifically, the group is exploring AI experiences related to text, including chat in Meta's WhatsApp and the Messenger instant messaging app.
- As well, members will work on generative AI in images through "creative Instagram filters and ad formats," as well as multi-modal AI experiences in video, Zuckerberg said.
- The group is intended to "turbocharge" Meta's work in generative AI, he said, noting that there is "a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences."
- According to Axios, Meta AI/ML VP Ahmad Al-Dahle will lead the new product team, which will report to Meta chief product officer Chris Cox.
Zoom out: - Last week, Meta announced its new LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) collection of language models.
- Zuckerberg said the models have demonstrated "a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material and more complicated tasks like solving math theorems or predicting protein structures."
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Snap is rolling out an OpenAI-powered AI chatbot to users of its Snapchat subscription service. The experimental "My AI" feature is described as a more restricted and mobile version of ChatGPT located within Snapchat. More: - Snap said the GPT-powered chatbot is customized to generate text specifically for Snapchat, with a "unique tone and personality" geared toward the platform's values on "friendship, learning, and fun."
- The AI service can "recommend birthday gift ideas for your BFF, plan a hiking trip for a long weekend, suggest a recipe for dinner, or even write a haiku about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed pal," it said.
- The feature was trained to avoid biases or harmful responses. However, Snap warned that the bot still has "many deficiencies," including a proneness toward AI "hallucinations" and the ability to be "tricked into saying just about anything."
- My AI is rolling out this week to subscribers of the $3.99-per-month Snapchat Plus service, though Snapchat could eventually launch the bot to all of its 750 million monthly users.
Zoom out: - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and other text generators are also prone to hallucinations, which occur when an AI model delivers a false but confident-sounding response that veers from its original training data.
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Typeface, a generative AI startup founded by ex-Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis, has raised $65M in Series A funding to help build out its platform. The San Francisco-based company, which just emerged from stealth mode, offers an AI platform for enterprises to create marketing and brand-related content. More: - Specifically, Typeface's platform helps businesses to generate social media ads, blog posts, job listings, product shots, and websites.
- Companies upload their existing content to train the platform, which is built on a customized Stable Diffusion 2.0 version and OpenAI's GPT-3.5.
- Combining the company's specific data with public data enables the platform to generate personalized text and images branded for each customer's unique audience and voice.
- "By adding brand affinity to generative AI, Typeface allows enterprises to harness their collective creative power for unique expressions of their stories and imagination," said Parasnis, who is CEO.
- Investors in Typeface include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Microsoft's M12 Venture Capital Fund.
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 Sixty percent of respondents in a Pew Research Center survey said they would be uncomfortable if their healthcare provider used AI to diagnose diseases and suggest treatments. Only 39% of the roughly 11,000 U.S. adults polled said they would feel comfortable with the concept. More: - Roughly the same number of respondents, 38%, said using AI to diagnose diseases and suggest treatments could result in better patient health outcomes.
- 33% said it would lead to worse health outcomes, while 27% said it wouldn't make a notable difference.
- 40% said they thought AI would cut down on the number of mistakes made by health providers, versus 27% who thought it would lead to more mistakes.
- Additionally, just over half of respondents thought bias and unfair treatment would improve if AI were used more in health care, versus only 15% who thought it would get worse.
- Additionally, 75% of the adults surveyed were more concerned that providers would adopt AI in health and medicine too quickly before understanding the risks.
- Only 23% were more concerned that providers would move too slowly in adopting AI, missing out on opportunities to improve patient health.
- The full results of the survey are available here.
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Twitter laid off an additional 200 employees over the weekend, including data scientists and engineers working on machine learning and site reliability. The company has reduced its workforce to about 2,000 employees, from more than 7,500 employees, since Elon Musk acquired the platform in late October. More: - Those who lost their jobs included product managers, engineers, and data scientists, including those who specialized in site reliability and ML.
- Twitter cut its monetization infrastructure team from 30 employees to fewer than eight.
- The job cuts come after Twitter took its internal Slack offline, barring employees from communicating via the messaging service.
- In November, Twitter cut its entire ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team as part of companywide layoffs affecting about 3,700 workers.
- The META team was charged with analyzing, explaining, and publishing Twitter's algorithms and ensuring that they remain balanced and fair.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. She has written the Inside AI newsletter since 2019. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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