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Meta Unveils Slew of AI Innovations: Bing Integration, Celebrity Bots, and More

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At its annual Connect conference, Meta revealed upcoming AI features for its family of apps. This includes new chatbots voiced by celebrities, AI image editing tools, and an AI assistant integrating Microsoft Bing.

Meta is pushing to infuse its platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp with advanced AI capabilities. While promising, Meta must ensure transparent, ethical development as these technologies influence billions of users.

AI-Generated Stickers Come to Messaging Apps

Leveraging models like Llama 2, Meta will let users turn text prompts into custom stickers in Messenger, Instagram Direct, and WhatsApp chats. This provides creative new ways for users to express themselves and enhance conversations.

New Instagram Image Editing with AI

Two new Instagram features, Restyle and Backdrop, allow users to transform or edit images with AI using just descriptive text. The technology comes from Meta's Segment Anything Model and research collaboration with Anthropic.

Meta AI Assistant Brings Bing Search and Image Generation

An AI assistant called Meta AI will offer information via Bing search integration and generate photorealistic images from text descriptions. Expected to aid productivity and connections, it rolls out in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.

AI Chatbot Characters Voiced by Celebrities

Meta is introducing AI chatbot characters with unique personalities voiced by celebrities like Snoop Dogg and athletes like Tom Brady. Each has a backstory and social media profile.

More AI Creation Tools Arriving Soon

Looking ahead, Meta plans new tools like AI Studio for businesses and creators to build specialized AIs for its messaging platforms. A user sandbox for experimenting with AI creation is also in development.

Meta must ensure transparent development and usage as it pushes new generative AI. If done responsibly, these innovations could greatly enrich users' experiences and creativity.

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