Meta launches an artificial intelligence model for image processing and analysis

 Meta Platforms said it will provide researchers with access to a new "humanlike" artificial intelligence model that it said can analyze and complete images with a higher degree of accuracy than existing models.

The company added that the new model (i-JEPA) uses prior knowledge about the world to fill in missing parts of images, rather than just looking at nearby components like other generative AI models.

She said that this approach includes a kind of human-like thinking supported by the chief scientist of artificial intelligence, Jan Lucan, and helps the technology avoid common errors in images generated by artificial intelligence, such as the appearance of a human hand with extra fingers.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is one of the most popular publishers of open source AI research through its own in-house research lab. Its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said sharing models developed by Meta researchers can help the company by spurring innovation, discovering security vulnerabilities and reducing costs. "For us, it's best if the industry standardizes on what we use in terms of core tools, so we can benefit from the improvements that others are making," he told investors in April.

The godfather of artificial intelligence

The company's executives have so far rejected warnings from others in the sector about the potential risks of this technology, and last month declined to sign a statement describing those risks as equal to the risks of epidemics and wars, despite endorsing the statement by senior executives at OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft and Google.

Considered one of the "godfathers of artificial intelligence", Lucan refuses to focus on the potential disadvantages of this technology and instead supports work on safety checks for its systems.

Meta has also begun integrating the features of generative AI models into its consumer products, including advertising tools that can create photo backgrounds and an Instagram product that can edit photos, both of which are based on user searches.