Meta AI explained: what is it, uses, limitations, how it works, availability, and more
Are you wondering what this new button on the WhatsApp homescreen is? Or what this new search bar on the Instagram DM screen is? That new WhatsApp button or Instagram search bar is how you access Meta AI. But, what is Meta AI? You’ll find an answer to that here. And in case you are yet to come across it, let’s check its availability, and how you can use it. We have also explained its limitations, and how it works.
What is Meta AI
Meta AI is the new generative AI (artificial intelligence) assistant developed by Meta. It is the ChatGPT rival and is present within Meta apps like WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger as a tool to enhance user interactions and experiences. As an AI chatbot, it can respond to your messages/prompts and interact as if you are having a conversation.
Meta AI availability
- Platforms: It is available on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and the web (Meta.AI).
- Countries: It is rolled out in English in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The company will bring it to more countries and languages in future.
Meta AI uses
- Answer queries: Type @MetaAI in a WhatsApp chat or Instagram message window and shoot your queries to the bot. You can also open the Meta AI chat window and ask it directly. It will answer you.
- Search the web: Meta AI responses can include links from both Google Search and Bing. So, it searches and sifts through to give you the relevant results.
- Conversation: You can have regular chats with the AI. There are over 28 characters based on real-world celebrities like Charli D’Amelio, Kendall Jenner, MrBeast, etc.
- Generate text and images: It can dish out a long piece of text content and “photorealistic” images.
- Get content recommendations: You can ask Meta AI to give you a particular type of content you want from their vast library of user-generated content. For example: You can ask Meta AI for a travel video Reel.
- Miscellaneous: It can also provide translations, summarization, sentiment analysis, easy explanations, data analysis, code generation, etc.
How Meta AI works
Meta AI uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other machine learning algorithms to understand your prompts/queries and generate relevant responses. It is trained on and relies on Meta’s Llama 3 Large Language Model (LLM) for the following actions:
- It first analyses your prompts/queries to understand the meaning and context.
- It then refers to its knowledge (based on LLM) and comes up with an answer.
- It gives you the answer.
- It reads and learns from your feedback to improve over time.
Meta AI limitations
- Meta AI doesn’t respond to political prompts during election time.
- It fails to identify the context of some queries. In one instance, it identified a sports query as a political one and refused to answer. Upon clarifying the query’s intent, it gave the response.
- It works only in English for now.
- Like other AI models, this one also suffers from bias, hallucinations, common sense, logical reasoning, creativity, and ethical consideration.
- Llama 3 consists of information till March 2023 only. However, since it can rely on Google and Bing, it can source the information from the web. So, this isn’t entirely a limitation.
FAQ
Can I disable Meta AI on WhatsApp or Instagram?
Unfortunately, there is no way to turn off Meta AI on WhatsApp or Instagram.
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