Meta announced a new tool called AI Studio that lets you build virtual characters with custom personalities, traits, and interests. You can even make one based on yourself. Creators can use these digital versions to interact with fans in DMs.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared this news at the SIGGRAPH conference. AI Studio will first be available to Instagram Business account users and will roll out to all Meta users in the US in the coming weeks. You can access AI Studio at ai.meta.com/ai-studio or through the Instagram app. The chatbots will also work on WhatsApp, Messenger, and the web.
Users can create chatbots for entertainment or personal support, like practicing how to ask for a raise. You can limit who your chatbot interacts with and control the topics it discusses. The tool prohibits creating chatbots based on real people other than yourself or on controversial figures.
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Meta has already showcased some chatbots made by celebrities, like a dining guide by chef Marc Murphy and a photography bot by Angel Barclay. Instagram personalities like Chris Ashley and Violet Benson have also created their own chatbot versions.
With AI Studio, you can customize your chatbot by providing a detailed description, name, image, and instructions on how it should respond to different inputs. These chatbots use Meta’s latest AI model, Llama.
Meta’s decision to offer robust AI models for free has made it an AI success story. However, previous attempts at celebrity-based AI chatbots did not gain much popularity. The new AI Studio is seen as an evolution from those earlier efforts.
There’s evidence that users prefer fully customizable bots. For example, Character AI, a company started by former Google employees, has millions of users for its custom chatbots.
At SIGGRAPH, Zuckerberg also introduced a new tool called Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2 for analyzing images and videos. This tool can help track and study natural environments more efficiently.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed interest in a custom “Jensen AI” that knows everything he’s said, written, and done, hoping it could handle questions from stock analysts in the future.
Source: wired
