Threads is dead - can AI chatbots save Meta's Twitter clone?
Date:
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:42:06 +0000
Description:
Meta is launching AI chatbots that hope to keep conversations lively.
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Meta is set to launch numerous artificial intelligence chatbots that will
host different personalities by September this year, in a bid to recoup faltering interest in the social media giants other products.
According to the Financial Times , these chatbots have been in the works for some time, with the aim of having more human conversations with users in an attempt to boost social media engagement.
The attempt to give various chatbots different temperaments and personalities seems like a similar attempt at a social AI chatbot seen in Snapchats My AI earlier this year, which created some mild buzz but quickly faded into irrelevance.
According to the report, Meta is even exploring a chatbot that speaks like Abraham Lincoln, as well as one that will dish out travel advice in the
verbal style of a surfer. These new tools are poised to provide new search functions and offer recommendations, similar to the ways in which the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT is used.
Its possible - likely, even - that this new string of AI chatbots is an attempt to remain relevant, as the company may be focused on maintaining attention since Threads lost more than half its user base only a couple of weeks after launching in early July. Metas long-running metaverse project
also appears to have failed to garner enough interest, with the company switching focus to AI as its primary area of investment back in March.
Regardless, well soon be treated to even more AI-boosted chatbots. Oh, joy.
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/threads-is-dead-ca n-ai-chatbots-save-metas-twitter-clone
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