New Delhi (India), 6th April 2023: The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is a potent artificial intelligence model that can recognise specific items in an image, even those it has never seen before.
The business also made available what it says to be the industry’s largest dataset of image annotations. According to the company’s paper, “We built the largest segmentation dataset to date (by far), with over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed and privacy-respecting images.”
SAM can be used to select items by clicking on them or writing text prompts, like “cat,” to identify all cats in a picture, according to a blog entry by Meta’s research division.
Meta has been experimenting with generative artificial intelligence, which generates new material instead of just classifying or identifying data. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, integrating such technology into Meta’s apps will be a focus in 2023. The business is creating generative AI tools, some of which produce videos from text prompts and others which produce picture books for kids from prose.
Similar technology is already used by Meta internally to tag images, police objectionable material, and suggest articles to Facebook and Instagram users. It is anticipated that SAM’s introduction will increase people’s access to this kind of technology.
The launch of SAM coincides with a wave of advances in artificial intelligence from major tech firms. With its success and use of generative AI, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has sparked a surge of investments and a battle for market supremacy.
