Meta introduces SAM, an AI model that can identify things in images
Facebook parent company, Meta has developed, SAM, an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can recognise the various objects in the images.
Highlights
- Meta introduces SAM, their AI model
- SAM is capable of distinguishing between several items in an image
- Meta uses SAM-like technologies to tag photographs, remove objectionable information, and promote articles
The Facebook-owned company Meta (META.O) released an artificial intelligence model on 5 April, 2023, that can identify specific items within an image, coupled with what it claimed to be the largest dataset of image annotations ever.
Know more about this AI-based model
The business's research department said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could recognise objects in pictures and videos even when it hadn't seen those objects during training.
In a blog post, Meta stated that the model was created and trained to be quick, allowing it to transfer zero-shot to different picture distributions and jobs. The statement continued, "We examine its capabilities on a variety of tasks and find that its zero-shot performance is excellent—frequently competitive with or even superior to earlier fully supervised outcomes."
With SAM, items can be chosen by clicking on them or by entering text commands. In one demonstration, according to Fox News, writing the word "cat" caused the tool to draw boxes around each of the multiple cats in a picture.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive of Meta, adding these generative AI "creative tools" to Meta's products is a top focus for this year. Internally, Meta does make use of SAM-like technologies for tasks including tagging photographs, removing objectionable information, and choosing which articles to promote to Facebook and Instagram users.
The corporation said that the introduction of SAM will increase access to that kind of technology. A non-commercial licence will be required to obtain the SAM model and dataset. Users who upload their own photographs to an associated prototype must also consent to using them strictly for study.
Since Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot became a sensation worldwide, sparking a surge of investments and a race to dominate the area, large tech companies have been bragging about their artificial intelligence advances.
Although it has not yet made the product available, Meta has teased a number of features that use the kind of generative AI made famous by ChatGPT, which generates entirely new material rather than just detecting or categorising data like conventional AI.
