Snapchat launches

Popular social media app Snapchat on Monday launched its personal chatbot known as “My AI,” utilizing the most recent model of  OpenAI’s quickly rising generative textual content software, ChatGPT. 

My AI is a customized chatbot that for now’s solely accessible to Snapchat+ customers, who pay $3.99 monthly to entry “exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features.” 

Snapchat payments the brand new pseudo companion as a “fun and experimental sidekick.” 

“Chat about your day or write a haiku about your bestie,” Snapchat stated in a demo of My AI. 

My AI may also advocate birthday presents for pals, assist customers plan weekend journeys, and recommend dinner recipes, Snapchat stated in a press release saying the brand new characteristic. 

That chatbot can be named, in response to the corporate. 

Embraced by professionals, regardless of bugs

Professionals in numerous fields have been fast to embrace ChatGPT, utilizing it as an administrative assistant, to provide written content material, and even carry out authorized capabilities

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ChatGPT, which first turned accessible for public use in December, has acquired new customers sooner than the preferred client apps created so far, amassing 57 million month-to-month lively customers in its first month of availability.

Experts have been awed by its capabilities but in addition involved by the arrogance with which the generative textual content software can sometimes spit out misinformation. 

“Prone to hallucinations”

Snapchat cautioned that “as with all AI-powered chatbots, My AI is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything.”

“Please be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance!” Snapchat added. 

The firm will retailer consumer conversations with My AI and overview them to enhance accuracy. It encourages customers to not share secrets and techniques with My AI, or to depend on it for recommendation. 

At the identical time, Snapchat encourages members to ask My AI for dinner and reward suggestions and for assist making weekend plans. 

Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel stated the corporate’s embrace of AI-powered chatbots comes as AI is more and more built-in into our day-to-day lives. 

“The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we’re going to talk to AI every day,” he informed The Verge

. “And this is something we’re well positioned to do as a messaging service.”