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The First-Ever VR Horror Series Set to Debut
Meta, Crypt TV, and ShinAwiL Studio have joined forces to launch an immersive horror experience with the multi-episode VR series, "The Faceless Lady." The creators promise to revolutionize the interactive horror genre, elevating it to a new level of engagement. 
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced his company's hefty investment in Nvidia graphics cards, pouring billions into the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). This AI aims to execute tasks with human-like proficiency. Zuckerberg anticipates Meta's inventory of H100 graphics cards to reach 350,000 units by the end of 2024. 
Facebook Succumbs to AI, Logic Loses Out
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has delegated Facebook's content moderation to artificial intelligence. Yet occasionally, this AI makes choices that seem comically misguided. While users can challenge these decisions, the ultimate arbiter remains... that very same all-mighty AI. 
In an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast on September 28th, Mark Zuckerberg and the renowned computer scientist engaged in a one-hour conversation in the metaverse. The entire exchange took place using photorealistic avatars, made possible by Meta’s Quest 3 headsets and noise-canceling headphones. “9 minutes into Lex/Mark metaverse podcast, I forgot I was watching avatars,” fans say. Fridman himself shared his impressions of the challenge of distinguishing Zuckerberg’s avatar from his actual physical presence. Microsoft Forms an AI Lobby: Expert Insights
Roger McNamee, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, provides a unique insight into the recent gathering of tech industry leaders at Capitol Hill. Fierce competitors—Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, X, and others—convened to discuss the future of AI. 
According to insights from the Wall Street Journal, Meta's ongoing project is a new AI system. They aim to topple established language models, such as GPT-4 and even their own Llama 2. This fresh initiative will center on large-scale text processing and its subsequent scrutiny. The timeline for initiating the model's training is set for 2024. 
In his exploration of the $36 billion Horizon Worlds metaverse, video blogger Jarvis Johnson found player activity to be surprisingly sparse.
He counted roughly 900 daily English-speaking users. Many of these were children who managed to circumventing the platform's age restrictions.
These findings cast serious doubt on Meta's prior claim of 200,000 engaged users every month, hinting at possible exaggeration. 
In a bid to compete with Twitter (recently rebranded to X) TikTok has launched a new feature enabling users to create and share text-based content.
:comet: The move comes just 20 days after Meta’s Threads was introduced as a rival to X.
Additional features like stickers, tags, hashtags, background colors, and draft saving are also available to enhance text-based content. 
Meta, overseeing platforms like Facebook and Instagram, is set to implement a policy requiring users to tag all content generated by artificial intelligence. An automatic detection system for identifying such AI-created images, videos, and audio in posts is also in the pipeline. 
Under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is charting a new course with its AI-driven chatbot, Meta AI. This innovaton is set to be a fixture in all apps and devices the company releases. With the Llama 2 language model as its base, this chatbot can produce both text and images, providing users with multiple use cases. Celebrity-inspired chatbots for entertainment, with Snoop Dogg among the first, are also in the pipeline. 
This offers access to a variety of metaverse services and applications, including digital football, live broadcasts, social interactions, and official digital personas within the metaverse. The 5G super network is situated in Beijing Workers’ Stadium. Furthermore, the Gongtai Meta Universe GTVerse experience center is set to commence internal testing in October. 
Meta, previously recognized as Facebook, is working on crafting chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, each endowed with a unique personality. These bots will be capable of engaging in human-like conversations on a wide array of subjects or even emulate certain characters.
The first iterations of these chatbots are slated for an official roll-out in September. Their primary role will be to assist in information retrieval or offer suggestions.
Currently, the company has chosen not to offer any comments regarding this development. 