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In addition to the Quest 3S, Meta on Wednesday also showcased its latest prototype of augmented-reality smart glasses and announced a flurry of new features for its Meta AI chatbot. What it doesMetaA Meta representative said the "S" in Quest 3S stands for "start" — as in getting started with VR. Orion is Meta's first "fully-functioning" prototype AR glasses, Zuckerberg said, and the device is tethered wirelessly to a small "puck." The Orion glasses are an improvement on Project Nazare, prototype smart glasses that Zuckerberg announced in 2021, when the company changed its name from Facebook. As part of Wednesday's event, Meta announced new Meta AI features for its Ray-Ban smart glasses.

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☆ Meta's AI keeps pretending to be me and giving my phone number out to strangers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

You only need to save my phone number," the AI responded in Spanish — before sharing my phone number. Someone in this WhatsApp group had asked Meta AI for its phone number — and again it shared my number. It had replied that it did, and Maxi simply had to message a phone number — my phone number — to access the content. Since I asked Meta's communications team for help, I haven't received any more messages from people looking for Meta AI. Another time, Meta AI said it didn't have a phone number (it actually does, +1 313-555-0002, although it doesn't advertise it publicly).

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☆ Meta's AI apparently said the shooting at the Trump rally didn't happen. Here's what ChatGPT and Claude said.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jordan Hart | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kaplan also said the incorrect responses, or "hallucinations," aren't specific to Meta AI only. Meta AISince receiving criticism, Meta has tweaked the responses from Meta AI. Related stories"We've since updated the responses that Meta AI is providing about the assassination attempt, but we should have done this sooner. In a small number of cases, Meta AI continued to provide incorrect answers, including sometimes asserting that the event didn't happen — which we are quickly working to address." ClaudeClaude didn't make any assertions about what happened at Trump's rally on July 13. Business InsiderUnlike Meta AI and ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude AI didn't try to make assertions about whether or not the shooting occurred.

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☆ Meta's AI chatbot says it was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Meta didn't deny it but said the bot could be inaccurate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Meta AI chatbot is more willing to share what data it was trained on than Meta is. It expanded Meta AI in April as a chat and image generator function across all its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta AI told Business Insider that it was trained on large datasets of transcriptions from YouTube videos. Meta AI initially said its training data included a third-party dataset of 3.7 million transcribed YouTube videos. In responding to further queries about its YouTube training data, Meta AI said its training data included another, larger dataset of transcriptions from 6 million YouTube videos also compiled by a third party.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg announces 'big AI news'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The technology powers Meta AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use." They've also been integrated into Meta AI, the company's AI assistant. "With this new model, we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday in an Instagram post. Advertisement"I don't think that today many people really think about Meta AI when they think about the main AI assistants that people use," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told The Verge in an article published Thursday. Meta AI, of course, faces stiff competition from better-known AI assistants, including the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude.

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