Dame Judi Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina will all voice Meta AI – the artificial intelligence deployed by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta.
As part of an update to its Llama model, people will now be able to interact with Meta AI – that of the company ChatGPT-like a chatbot – by talking and getting responses from celebrities.
Frozen’s Kristen Bell and comedian Keegan-Michael Key will also be options.
At Meta’s annual Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg also introduced Orion, a pair of smart glasses that it described as “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.”
In addition to Orion, he showed off updates to a pair of smart glasses that Meta developed with Ray-Ban, which will now be capable of live translation.
While wearing them, Mr Zuckerberg spoke in English to Mexican martial artist Brandon Moreno, who responded in Spanish – the conversation was translated in real time.
Mark Zuckerberg (left) thanks UFC fighter Brandon Moreno for his demonstration of a live translation feature: an update to a pair of smart glasses. Photo: AP
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People can also dub their videos into another language to make it look like they’re speaking natively – even going so far as to change their lip movement accordingly.
“We are trying to build a future that is more open, more accessible, more natural and more focused on human relationships,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.
“It’s a continuation of the values and ideas we brought to the applications and technology we built over Meta’s first 20 years.”
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Meta AI now has 500 million users, the company said.
Jeremy Goldman of research firm Emarketer called the figure “staggering.”
“Meta has grown from just a social media company to an AI powerhouse,” he said.
“Mr. Zuckerberg’s move to celebrity voices isn’t just for fun – it’s a direct challenge to OpenAI, with its focus on real-world utility.
“Meta is aggressively undermining Apple’s Vision Pro to dominate the mid-tier AR/VR market.”
These VR glasses, released earlier this year after much anticipation, cost $3,500 (£2,600).
