Meta announces AI chatbots with 'personality' - BBC News

Meta has announced a series of new chatbots with "personality" to be used in its Messenger service.

At Meta's first in-person event since before the pandemic, the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg said that it had been an "amazing year for AI".

Zuckerberg also discussed the metaverse - a virtual world - which is a concept that he has so far spent tens of billions of dollars on.

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[GIBBO]

He’s determined to end actual physical interaction

[sciencesaves]

The bots sound more emotionally advanced than the ceo

[theafroabroad]

Whatever happened to spending time in the real world as opposed to a fake metaverse world?

[worf]

And yet they could not create a personality for Mark.

[rohitlovesnature]

Google tried this long back and it backfired

[hautedoctor]

This is what all tech companies want. To digitalise our entire state of being and make us permanently online. Nothing to be celebrated with this latest Meta launch.

[michaelkellykelly]

The newscaster's face at 1:17 is gold

[jopjop]

Mark can shove it where the sun doesn't shine its privacy people want not a camera in your face everywhere you go.

[joesummer]

The possibility of all this going wrong is unbelievable

[chronablitz]

At a societal level this ain't gonna work. Imagine hundreds or thousands of people saying hey Meta, It would certainty drive me insane I mean Alexa was bad enough. To me This is another example of rich billionaires attempting to make virtual dystopias to increase engagement and capital by gross/invasive engagement. The only reason this came about was the pandemic, they saw a opportunity and tried to roll with it and it backfired for Facebook big time.

[KerriForsberg]

I bet they'll have more personality than mark Zuckerberg.

[PathanShortVideos]

I think what is killing the Metaverse is the point that a lot of people don't want to be involved with facebook.

[fortune_roses]

Wonder how the AI's *personality* compares to the engineers who built it :D

[clebruckus]

AI chatbots are as thick as their programmers

[aleccastro]

Imagine having all the money and power in the world to influence and improve reality on earth...
and all you do is build a fake reality 🤦‍♂

[steveparker]

With personality? I guess if they can do that they can give Zuckerberg one too...

[effeelle]

1. "Virtual reality that merges virual and real worlds". Well, in that case is Augmented Reality.
2. What about privacy and ethical issues of glasses that can take pictures everywhere and to anyone without any social clue?

Nice ways to waste billions while people are dying of hunger and climatic issues are destroying us. My god.

[LimerickWarrior]

The biggest case of false advertising since the never ending story. Mark doesnt know what a personality is.

[lobstermash]

It makes you feel a little less sick. OK, onwards and upwards.

[sentdc]

Didn't Google try it with glassholes already?