On Thursday, Discord, a chat app, announced that it will be launching new artificial intelligence capabilities, such as summarizing lengthy conversations and adding decorations to user avatars, as part of the growing trend among tech firms to develop generative AI tools.
Generative AI, which has captured the attention of the tech industry, is a technology that can generate images, text or video in response to a prompt.
AI-focused startups such as OpenAI, as well as major tech companies like Microsoft and Google, have developed or revealed chatbots powered by artificial intelligence that are capable of synthesizing information from the web to provide answers to intricate searches or even write entirely new novels.
“We’re seeing one of the most exciting moments in technology emerging,” Jason Citron, chief executive of San Francisco-based Discord, said during a press briefing.
Discord, a chat app that enables users to communicate through text, video, and voice, has announced that it will upgrade its bot named Clyde, using technology from OpenAI. The revamped Clyde will have the ability to answer trivia questions, assist with scheduling meetings, and recommend playlists using AI, according to the company’s statement.
Another AI feature will let users “remix” their friends’ avatars using generative image models. For instance, the feature could place a crown on a person’s head in their profile image to celebrate their birthday.
If users have been away from Discord and missed a stream of messages, an AI tool will be able to summarize the conversation and allow users to quickly jump back to parts of the message thread to catch up on the discussion. The tool will begin to roll out next week in a limited number of Discord groups, the company said.
Discord said it will also experiment with OpenAI technology to improve an existing content moderation tool that helps automatically block harmful or unwanted messages from a Discord chat. The revamped tool can flag messages to moderators and also understand the context of the conversation, the company said.
