The author tested Meta AI on various topics including news, history, controversy, medical, content marketing, and summarizing articles. The results were mixed, with the AI providing factual and up-to-date responses in some cases, but failing to provide primary sources or context in others. The author concludes that while Meta AI is useful for casual questions, it doesn't offer anything more than a normal internet search.
Key takeaways:
- Meta's new large language model, Llama 3, powers the "Meta AI" chatbot, which is available for free on various platforms including Meta.ai, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
- Meta AI tends to regurgitate a lot of web search results and doesn't excel at anything in particular, but it is being promoted as a first stop for the AI-curious.
- Meta AI's responses to queries are factual and up-to-date, but not particularly eloquent, and often just quote liberally from the top search results.
- Despite its limitations, Meta AI is one of the few models that's both free and stays up to date with current events by searching online.