{"id":1938319,"date":"2023-05-25T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-tests-artificial-intelligence-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:35:06","slug":"tiktok-tests-artificial-intelligence-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-tests-artificial-intelligence-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok tries AI upgrade."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiktok-tests-artificial-intelligence-upgrade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>TikTok is Exploring a New Chatbot Called &#8220;Tako&#8221; to Help Users Discover Content<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Social media platform <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"><b>TikTok<\/b><\/span> is always exploring new technology to enhance user experience. Recently, it has been testing a new chatbot called &#8220;Tako&#8221; with select users in the Philippines. Tako is designed to converse with users about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-learned-at-the-aspen-ideas-reet-festival-sponsored-by-mastercard-paypal-and-prudential-in-partnership-with-bloomberg\/\" title=\"What I Learned at the Aspen Ideas RE$ET Festival Sponsored by Mastercard, PayPal, and Prudential in Partnership with Bloomberg\">short videos<\/a> and help them discover entertaining and inspiring content on the app.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is Tako?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tako is a chatbot that can be accessed through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-tests-artificial-intelligence-upgrade\/\" title=\"TikTok tries AI upgrade.\">ghost-shaped icon<\/a> on the TikTok interface.<\/li>\n<li>It can answer questions and provide relevant TikTok videos based on the user&#8217;s query.<\/li>\n<li>Tako is currently in the early stages of testing and is an experimental feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How is Tako Different from Other Chatbots?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unlike other chatbots, Tako is not an all-purpose assistant. It is more like a navigation assistant that encourages users to watch more videos on TikTok. Tako can provide answers to general questions but will also recommend relevant TikTok videos based on the user&#8217;s query.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are the Risks of Using Tako?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>TikTok has set a Disclaimer that Tako is an experimental chatbot, and responses could be inaccurate. The company will review conversations with Tako for safety purposes and warns users not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-guidance-counselors-association-advocates-schools-to-keep-students-gender-transition-secret-from-parents\/\" title=\"U.S. Guidance Counselors Association Advocates Schools to Keep Students\u2019 Gender Transition Secret From Parents\">share private information<\/a> with it.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is always looking for new ways to power search and discovery on its platform. With Tako, the company hopes to provide a more personalized experience for its users and help them discover new and exciting content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok is testing a chatbot called &#8220;Tako&#8221; that can converse with users about short videos and help them discover content. The social media platform is in the early stages of exploring the technology and is conducting tests with select users in the Philippines. OpenAI&#8217;s chatbot ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft Corp, was launched last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1938320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6248,5083],"class_list":["post-1938319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-tiktok","tag-upgrade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}