Artificial Intelligence is the key to unlock the Metaverse

Meta is working on artificial intelligence research to generate worlds through speech, improve how people chat to voice assistants and translate between languages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, as he sketched out key steps to building the metaverse. Zuckerberg is betting that the metaverse, a futuristic idea of virtual environments where users can work, socialize and play, will be the successor to the mobile internet. The key to unlocking a lot of these advances is AI.

Meta introduced ‘BuilderBot’ – “a new tool to fuel creativity in the metaverse using voice commands.” Another development is ‘No Language Left Behind’ – a system that translates all written languages. It has the ability to communicate with anyone in any language is a superpower that was dreamt of forever and it would instantly provide speech-to-speech translations for all languages. Project ‘CAIRaoke’ is the next conversational AI improvement for more fluid conversations between people and chatbots or virtual assistants. Sources said, Meta is currently building the world’s most powerful and fastest AI supercomputer.

Facebook has been investing in AI for the past 10 years and has one of the world’s leading experts, as we advance this technology further, you'll be able to create nuanced worlds to explore and share experiences with others, with just your voice,” Zuckerberg said. Meta is further developing tools to make AI systems more explicable. ‘System Cards’ is the newest resource that explains how AI works. In January it announced that it had built a new AI supercomputer that aims to be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022.

Meta plans to hire 10,000 people in Europe to help develop the Metaverse and people are excited about it. However, critics have asked whether big corporations should be allowed to dominate the creation of such worlds – and how safe users would be. Further, it will help to understand how Instagram ranking operates. Meta’s Artificial Intelligence Learning Alliance (AILA) aims to “strengthen diversity and increase equity in the field of artificial intelligence” and make learning available to everyone through Blueprint. Going forward, the company has plans to introduce ‘TorchRec,’ a library for recommendation systems that personalizes products.