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Chinese military researchers reportedly used Meta AI to develop defense chatbot

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Chinese research scientists linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of China’s ruling party, reportedly used “open” AI from Meta to develop a tool for defense applications. According to Reuters, Chinese researchers, including two affiliated with a PLA R&D group, used Meta’s Llama 2 AI model to create a military-focused chatbot. The […]

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Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch

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Meta says it’s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI. GelSight will work with Meta to bring to market Digit 360, which Meta describes as a “a tactile fingertip with human-level multimodal sensing capabilities.” The successor to Meta’s Digit sensor, Digit 360 digitizes

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Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

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Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can generate back-and-forth, podcast-style digests of text files uploaded to it. NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a file — e.g. a PDF

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WhatsApp introduces contact storing directly within the app, teases usernames

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WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app. That means that even if you lose your phone or link a new device to your primary number, you will see all the contacts stored within WhatsApp in a cloud storage. Until now, WhatsApp relied on your phone’s contact

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Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out

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Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, the answer is no. He thinks we could get there in a decade or so, however, by pursuing a new method

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