Meta has announced a series of new chatbots to be used in its Messenger service. These chatbots have „personality” and are specialized in certain subjects, like holidays or cooking advice.
The chatbots are still a work in progress with „limitations”, stated Mark Zuckerberg.
The company is calling its main chatbot „Meta AI” – in a hallucinating turn of events, users can ask Meta AI questions in chat „to settle arguments” or ask other questions.
Several celebrities have signed up to lend their personalities to different types of chatbots, including Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner.
„This isn’t just going to be about answering queries,” Zuckerberg went on. „This is about entertainment”.
According to Meta, NFL star Tom Brady will play an AI character calle Bru, „a wisecracking sports debater” and YouTube star MrBeast will play Zach, a big brother „who will roast you”.
The chatbots will be rolled out in the coming days and only in the US initially, says the BBC.
Zuckerberg also discussed the virtual world of the metaverse, which he has spent tens of billions of dollars on.
