Last Updated: April 20, 2023, 01:08 IST
Snap’s chatbot, known as My AI, which can assist customers with the whole lot from writing poems to looking for info, was constructed utilizing startup OpenAI’s ChatGPT expertise. (Image: Snap/Twitter)
Generative AI has captured the tech trade’s focus in current months and may generate unique textual content or images in response to prompts.
Snap Inc on Wednesday mentioned its synthetic intelligence chatbot will now give you the option to reply to customers’ messages with a completely AI-generated picture, because the proprietor of photograph messaging app Snapchat deepens its work in AI expertise.
The announcement got here at Snap’s annual Partner Summit. The firm goals to use the expertise to velocity up its growth of augmented actuality (AR) options, or computerized photos overlayed on high of images and movies of the actual world.
Generative AI has captured the tech trade’s focus in current months and may generate unique textual content or images in response to prompts. Snap’s chatbot, known as My AI, which can assist customers with the whole lot from writing poems to looking for info, was constructed utilizing startup OpenAI’s ChatGPT expertise.
My AI is now accessible free to all Snapchat customers and will be invoked to reply to questions in conversations between associates on Snapchat, Snap mentioned on Wednesday. The chatbot was first rolled out to customers who pay $3.99 a month for the corporate’s premium subscription Snapchat+.
My AI might assist customers discover extra elements of the Snapchat app by recommending lenses, which may add results to images and movies, or use the app’s map characteristic to advocate real-world locations to go to, mentioned Evan Spiegel, chief government of Snap, in an interview.
“This is the first time we’re bringing AI into communication, which is the core of our service,” he mentioned. “People are really using My AI as a creative tool.”
My AI’s means to reply to customers with its personal AI-generated photos can be accessible first on Snapchat+, which has reached 3 million subscribers, Snap mentioned.
As AI chatbots have grown, so have considerations about whether or not AI might plagiarize revealed works, present inaccurate info or return dangerous responses to queries.
Snap mentioned it added new security guard-rails to My AI, together with briefly limiting a consumer’s entry to the chatbot in the event that they repeatedly ask it inappropriate or dangerous questions.
Snap analyzes conversations with My AI and has discovered that 99.5% of the chatbot’s responses adhere to Snapchat’s neighborhood tips, Spiegel mentioned.
He added that My AI will now additionally take a consumer’s age into consideration “to make sure the conversation is age-appropriate.” On Wednesday, the Santa Monica, California-based firm additionally unveiled new AR mirrors which will be put in in shops to assist clients nearly attempt on clothes objects or see which equipment would match their outfit.
Retailers Nike and Men’s Warehouse are utilizing the mirrors in some shops, Snap mentioned.
The mirrors are a part of an enterprise division Snap launched final month to assist different corporations construct AR experiences for their very own apps and web sites. The enterprise might additionally assist Snap diversify past digital promoting, which at present makes up nearly all of its income.
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