Meta will release a first version of AI avatar expression soon after its Connect event in September 2023.
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What would count as true or false
Read 'soon after Connect' as by 31 Dec 2023. True: by that date, Meta released to users a first version of AI-driven avatar expression (e.g. facial expressions or animations for avatars generated or driven by AI). Mostly true: released by that date in a limited rollout or with minor differences. Mostly false: only demonstrated by end of 2023, or released in 2024 or later. False: dated evidence shows no such feature was released by end of 2023.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Meta Horizon OS Wikipedia Own record
“In December 2024, OVRLipSync was replaced in Horizon OS v71 by the Audio to Expression feature, an onboard AI-driven feature which extends the speech recognition to generate approximate facial gestures on one's avatar and compensate for a lack of face- and eye-tracking on the Quest 2, 3 and 3s.”
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E2 Meta Connect 2023: Quest 3, AI Advances, Next-Gen Smart Glasses, & the Road to the Metaverse Meta · 27 September 2023 Own record
“They’ll have profiles on Instagram and Facebook, and you’ll be able to chat with them in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Eventually, they’ll be embodied as avatars in the metaverse too.”
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E3 Meta Avatars Update: The Devil’s in the Details Meta · 24 October 2023 Own record
“Announced as part of our v57 update, we’ve been rolling out some exciting new changes to make Meta Avatars more expressive, customizable, and fantastical than ever before.”
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E4 Living in the Future Meta · 18 December 2023 Own record
“Over the years this research has led to breakthroughs like the pancake lenses on Quest Pro and Quest 3 and the amazing Codec Avatars prototype that Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman tried out this year.”
Reasoning
E1 shows an AI-driven avatar expression feature released in December 2024, but does not say it was the first. E3 shows an October 2023 update that made avatars "more expressive", and the evidence does not say whether those changes were AI-driven. So the evidence does not show whether a first version was released by the end of 2023.
Cite this claim
Mark Zuckerberg, “Meta will release a first version of AI avatar expression soon after its Connect event in September 2023.” (said 28 September 2023). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_92800c624fa3, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_92800c624fa3
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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