5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta’s AI personas, Pearson's AI study buddy and more
It is the first day of August and some major announcements were made in the field of artificial intelligence. YouTube is working on some experimental AI features that will allow it to auto-generate video summaries. In other news, Meta is developing AI personas for Facebook and Instagram that will offer a new way to interact with social media platforms. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
According to a support page on Google, YouTube has started testing a new AI feature that will auto-generate summaries on the platform. As a part of the test, the summaries will only be generated on a limited number of English-language videos and will be viewable to only a few users at this stage. However, the feature is expected to be rolled out to a wider user base provided it gives good results.
These summaries can be read on the watch and the search pages and will give you a quick overview of what a video is about. This feature is not intended to replace video descriptions.
Meta is working on a range of AI-powered chatbots that can change the way its social media platforms operate. Notable among them are chatbots for Facebook and Instagram that are being internally called ‘personas', as per a Financial Times report. These features can launch as soon as September 2023. These personas are intended to enhance and give a new experience for search, recommendation, and interaction with the platform.
As per a PTI report, researchers from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) conducted an AI experiment that highlighted that GPT-3 AI model has a reasoning ability that is as good as an undergraduate student. During the experiment, the researchers asked GPT-3 to predict the next shape which followed a series
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