The company "Meta", which owns Facebook, is developing artificial intelligence with the aim of building virtual worlds through speech and translation between languages, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday, as reported by Hina.
Zuckerberg is convinced that the "metaverse," a futuristic idea of virtual worlds where users can work, socialize or play, will be the successor to the mobile Internet.
The metaverse, a digital world where physical and virtual reality merge, Zuckerberg says is in many ways the ultimate expression of social technology.
"And the key that opens the door for us to progress is artificial intelligence," Zuckerberg said at his company's "Inside the Lab" event.
"Meta," he said, is working on a new class of AI models that will allow humans to describe the world and create parts of it.
He illustrated this with the artificial intelligence concept "Builder Bot", which allows users to describe what they want the artificial intelligence to create. He illustrated this by showing an avatar on an island speaking to an artificial intelligence to create a beach and add clouds, trees and even a picnic blanket.
"As this technology advances, we will be able to create nuanced worlds to explore and share experiences with others using just our voice," Zuckerberg said.
He also said that Meta is working on egocentric data, which involves seeing the worlds in the "first person", together with a consortium of 13 universities and laboratories.
A unique composition of artificial intelligence is being created that will enable translation between all written languages, and work is also underway on a universal speech translator.
Meta recently announced that its research team has developed a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that, when completed in mid-2002, will be the fastest in the world.
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