Artificial Intelligence
| With artificial intelligence, a technology Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted as a key research area at a recent earnings call, the social network may soon understand not only what we do on the Facebook, but what we mean, or what we really want. |
On a recent earnings call with investment analysts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company has a new Artificial Intelligence unit and, also, the company is separately developing a new speech recognition product.
In September, we formed the Facebook AI Group to do world-class artificial intelligence research using all the knowledge that people have shared on Facebook. The goal here is to use new approaches in AI to help make sense of all the content that people share so we can generate new insights about the world to answer people's questionsFacebook AI being based on "all the content people share" seems like a reference to the over 1.2 trillion user posts the company is now trying to make searchable.
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We started assembling a team of some of the best people in the field to work on these problems. We also announced the acquisition of Mobile Technologies, a speech recognition and machine translation company that will help expand our work in the field beyond just photo recognition to voice. Over time, I think it is going to be possible to build services that are much more natural to interact with and can help solving many more problems than any existing technologies today. I am excited that we are working on this problem and I am looking forward to doing a lot more here.Such a natural interaction model indicates Facebook wants to harmonize an AI and speech recognition system. Mobile Technologies work in translation software will also help Facebook be more competitive globally, and expand their software capabilities beyond an English-focused underpinning. Josh Costine at TechCrunch suggests, "If Facebook can find a way to surmount this hurdle and allow us to communicate despite our different tongues, it could promote greater racial and international tolerance." Of course, It could also help advertisers reach a much wider audience without very much extra work.
Why would a social networking system want to develop AI? Bhiksha Raj, a machine learning expert at Carnegie Mellon University, told Singularity Hub, “Places like Google and Facebook now have so much data that the kinds of networks you can train and the kinds of things you can learn from that have basically been unimaginable.”
So conceivably, Facebook in the future may know more about you, than you know yourself.
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