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Facebook owner Meta on Wednesday released an artificial intelligence model that can highlight individual objects in an image, as well as an image annotation dataset that they said was the largest of its kind.
The company’s research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, can identify objects in images and videos even when it hasn’t encountered those elements in training.
Meta already uses a system similar to SAM for activities like flagging photos, moderating banned content, and determining which posts to recommend to Facebook and Instagram users. The company said the release of SAM will increase access to this type of technology.
Meta has hinted at a number of features that use the type of generative AI popularized by ChatGPT, which creates entirely new content rather than simply identifying or classifying data like other AIs, however the product itself has yet to be released.
Big tech companies have been trumpeting their advances in artificial intelligence ever since the Microsoft-backed OpenAI ChatGPT chatbot became a sensation this fall, sparking a wave of investment and a race to dominate the space.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that incorporating such generative AI „creative assistants“ into Meta apps is a priority this year.
