Discord will roll out an AI-powered chatbot and messaging features

Chat app Discord announced on Thursday that it will introduce new artificial intelligence features that can summarize long conversations or add decorations to a user’s avatar, the latest move by tech companies to create tools for chatting. generative AI.

Generative AI, which has caught the attention of the tech industry, is a technology that can generate images, text or videos in response to a prompt.

Startups like OpenAI and tech giants like Microsoft and Google have introduced or announced AI chatbots capable of synthesizing web information to answer complex searches or even write original novels.

“We are witnessing the emergence of one of the most exciting times in technology,” Jason Citron, chief executive of San Francisco-based Discord, said during a press briefing.

Discord, which allows groups of users to chat via text, video and voice, said it will revamp a bot called Clyde, which will now be powered by OpenAI technology. Discord users can summon the AI-powered Clyde to answer trivial questions, help schedule meetings or recommend playlists, the company said.

Another AI feature will allow users to “remix” their friends’ avatars using generative image templates. For example, the feature could place a crown on someone’s head in their profile picture to celebrate their birthday.

If users have strayed from Discord and missed a message stream, an AI tool will be able to summarize the conversation and allow users to quickly return to parts of the message thread to catch up on the discussion. The tool will begin rolling out next week to 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 can automatically block harmful or unwanted messages from a Discord chat. The revamped tool can flag posts to moderators and also understand the context of the conversation, the company said.