Facebook-owner Meta is workin
g on artificial intelligence research to generate worlds through speech, improve how people chat to voice assistants and translate between languages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, as he sketched out key steps to building the metaverse.
Zuckerberg is betting that the metaverse, a futuristic idea of virtual environments where users can work, socialise and play, will be the successor to the mobile internet. "The key to unlocking a lot of these advances is AI," he said, speaking at the company's live-streamed 'Inside the Lab' event.
Meta said it was using the model within its video-calling Portal device and aimed to integrate it into devices with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). In an interview with Reuters, Meta's vice president for AI Jérôme Pesenti said it was tightly restricting the responses of its new CAIRaoke-based assistant until it could ensure that the system did not generate offensive language.
"These language models are very powerful... So we are making a lot of effort to be able to control them," said Pesenti.
