You could soon talk to chatbot that copies Abraham Lincoln as Meta plans to retain users using AI
Meta is reportedly planning to launch AI-powered chatbots that can imitate different personalities including that of late US president Abraham Lincoln.
In Short
- Meta is reportedly developing AI chatbots that can imitate famous personalities like Abraham Lincoln.
- The chatbots will respond to users in a human-like manner.
- The chatbots will serve as a new way for users to search, give recommendations, and provide a "fun" product for exploration
Since the beginning of this year, generative AI has been the talk of the tech industry and as more and more companies dive in the world of AI, the competition grows. In January 2023, OpenAI's ChatGPT seemed to be leading the AI race as it was something that people had never experienced before. Roughly a month later, Google unveiled its own AI chatbot Bard and Microsoft came up with Bing AI. A major AI race, thus began, and since then, the three companies have been rolling out updates to their own AI chatbots in order to stay relevant. And now, yet another tech giant is planning on entering the AI chatbot race.
Meta is reportedly working on AI chatbots that can not only talk in a human-like manner, but imitate famous personalities like Abraham Lincoln as well, a report by The Financial Times states.
Meta working on AI chatbots to retain users
The FT report states that Meta might be rolling out these AI-powered chatbots as soon as next month. These chatbots will likely have different personalities, and will respond in a human-like manner. One of these personalities that the chatbots will be copying is late US president Abraham Lincoln. The chatbots will hold discussions with users, give them advise on various topics, and more.
The purpose of the chatbots, as per the report, will be to offer a new way for people to search things on Meta, give recommendations, and be a 'fun product' that people can explore.
With these upcoming AI chatbots, Meta is seeking to retain users amidst stiff competition from other social media platforms like TiktoK.
Apart from this, the chatbots will also enable Meta to collect more data about the users' interests based on which, they will be able to display more relevant advertisements to them. Majority of Meta's revenue comes from advertising hence this could also boost ads revenue for the company.
“Once users interact with a chatbot, it really exposes much more of their data to the company, so that the company can do anything they want with that data,” Ravit Dotan, an AI ethics adviser and researcher told the Financial Times.
Meta's Threads losing users
It was recently reported that Meta had lost more than half of its users on Threads. The text-based platform was unveiled about a month back and became one of the fastest growing social media networks with over a 100 million downloads in five days of launch. However, the userbase has now declined as many people aren't using the app anymore.
A Reuters report revealed that more than half of users have stopped using Threads since its launch. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the same during an internal town hall and said that even though the retention on the Threads app was 'better than what the executives had expected, but it was not perfect'. Reuters cited its source as the audio of the internal call that they had accessed.
"Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We're not there yet," Zuckerberg said.