There's this feature they have now on Instagram where you can chat with different AI personas. It's really terrible. Do people actually use this? It's like trying to form a personal connection with clippy
Children often have questions that they are not comfortable talking to their parents about. And their peers can often be more clueless than they are. Or maybe they just want to understand the world they live in with something that is more fun and engaging than reading Wikipedia.
What's harming children right now aren't services like this. It's the peer pressure and unreal expectations being set by social media.
kinda really fucking depends on what "services like this" are telling them. Remember when the national eating disorder hotline replaced it's humans with chat bots that started telling people to just eat less?
And here they are, growing up with this technology, entirely unlike anything available to us in our childhoods. But one thing remains the same: if we shut them out altogether, they'll route around us and find it on their own.
A teetotaler myself, but the "not one drop" mentality doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Not because I want my kid using AI or alcohol, but I'd rather him try it under my watch than go out and find it on his own.
But if this is a feature that parental controls cannot limit, then I honestly don't know what to say other than, perhaps we're fucked as a society.
People would probably pay good money for that. Sell it to bootcamps
1) You're an ambitious meta employee trying to get promoted
2) You know leadership is hyped about AI
3) All of the low hanging fruit is gone
There is no reality in which Musk and the SLT are not personally aware of this.
And these features are all just about getting regular feedback to improve the model for future use cases.
Are they, though? AzureML will straight up let you spin up a chatbot in a few clicks, and you could just have the ops team set up auto scaling so you only consume resources you need (because really, how many people are actually going to use this?).
It could be expensive if you find tune, but a free POC would just be a to prompt an LLM to act like a celebrity, maybe with an example of text they wrote.
So at worst, you're paying for compute that is a drop in the bucket to someone like Meta