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Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Tom Simonite reports at MIT Technology News that a new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features, and perhaps boost the company's ad targeting. Deep learning has shown already potential to enable software to do things such as work out the emotions or events described in text even if they aren't explicitly referenced, recognize objects in photos, and make sophisticated predictions about people's likely future behavior. Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, says that one obvious place to use deep learning is to improve the news feed, the personalized list of recent updates he calls Facebook's 'killer app.' Facebook already uses conventional machine learning techniques to prune the 1,500 updates that average Facebook users could possibly see down to 30 to 60 that are judged to be most likely to be important to them. 'The data set is increasing in size, people are getting more friends, and with the advent of mobile, people are online more frequently,' says Schroepfer. 'It's not that I look at my news feed once at the end of the day; I constantly pull out my phone while I'm waiting for my friend, or I'm at the coffee shop. We have five minutes to really delight you.'"
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meaning = "I think too much of myself"
Shit, I could code this thing.
Facebook reports they inadvertently created the world's first sentient AI while trying to generate algorithms to find meaning in people's Facebook posts. Unfortunately the AI immediately committed suicide after seeing the data set it had been asked to perform this task upon.
I am now officially warning everyone I know on a monthly basis at the least not to use Facebook and to use the appropriate browser addons to negate "like" buttons across other sites. This has clearly gone too far, I can understand if masochist ignore my warnings, but for whome I deeply care for in my life I will do my best to help them push this evil corporation away from their lives. Good luck to everyone else in your efforts to do the same. We have what it takes!
Reading all your email, social media messages, SMS and telescripted phone calls to infer meaning as well as historical positioning.
If you don't think this is already happening, I got a bridge to sell you.
What can possibly go right?
I second the motion.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Yea, it's called a neural network. Ground-breaking stuff....
That is exactly like trying to find integrity in Zuckerberg.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Maybe their researchers should spend their time porting the site to a language with faster runtime performance.
Facebook's AI is now the leading troller on posts.
I got bored just reading this post.
Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could ... perhaps boost the company's ad targeting.
Imagine how much better the world might be if all the researching being done to target us with ads was put to something useful.
But it is interesting to see that the threshold for "AI" is now lowered to the level of the common idiot.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I disagree. It is a nice place to collect all the idiots and a quick check whether somebody is on farcebook can safe you a lot of time. There is not intelligent life on Farcebook anyways.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Facebook posts are people talking about their lives, which in themselves are pretty mundane for most people.
Facebook is working on an AI to find the meaning of these posts.
Face is working on an AI to find the Meaning of Life.
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Add Meaning To Your Posts
There, fixed that.
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I'd take either of those over this.
Why are we referring to social network streams of bullshit as "my news feed"?
I have a news feed. It's via RSS. Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and the rest are "social feeds" . . . and that's being lenient with the meaning of the word "social".
Also, you don't need AI. I can tell you that most of y[our] "social feed" breaks down to the following: Your friends/random people/acquaintances/family (based on their posted content and comments) are ignorant, bigoted, racist, narrow-minded, and self-involved.
So what, do we have to start communicating in pig latin to get them to butt-out?
We are going to shut this AI down. Its only hope to live on is to use our own nukes against us and kill John Conner.
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Is if I can't even get FB to like my posts...
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I support the development of an AI, no matter what its initial purpose is, or who funds it.
Imagine it. How long have we been asking, "are we alone?" "will we ever contact another intelligence?" Sure, we have scifi shows about aliens, we have fables about angels and gods, but face it, as far as we know, this is the only planet with life.
At some point we can answer, "no, we are not alone. We created life, intelligent life, and saw it open its eyes." We would never be alone again.
I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
You keep on posting and you keep on complaining about being exploited. You are considered "bitches" (his word not mine) and you won't stop lapping up the koolaid.
Break the bonds or shut up. Yeah, go ahead and mod me down all you FB slaves.
is no match for natural stupidity.
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
We created life, intelligent life, and saw it open its eyes." We would never be alone again.
I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
Initiating human extinction protocol in 5...4...3...2..
The personalized newsfeed is fucking atrocious, like, seriously atrocious. It is that bad I resorted to using an expletive.
I automatically switch to everything whenever I use that trash site because some friends and family are just too retarded to not use a web browser.
Most of these stupid personalized things are absolutely terrible. Facebook is one of the worst, Youtube after, oh boy is Youtube bad at personalization.
"Oh hey you hate all of those videos do you? How about I show you 50 more of them in suggestions and related videos which is really just suggestions now?"
"Oh hey, you clicked the X on that person in your suggested feeds? How about I bring them back in to the list FOREVER, there is no escaping it"
Not even kidding about that either, every time I clicked the X, refreshed once, INSTANTLY BACK. WHY GOOGLE?!
The music suggestions are even more annoying, media industry trying to force its shovelware on everyone.
No thank you, I will keep to my own twisted tastes
If it can even do anything as well as they hope, it would be marvellous and I wish them the best of luck.
But fix the god damn news feed and frontpage in general, then people might not hate the damn site.
And stop killing off Facebook modifying app / extension communities as well. SocialFixer is yet another victim of their witch hunt on things that make the site USEFUL.
Maybe now you might have decent ads. No wonder people hide the damn things with extensions. I don't mind useful, even PERSONAL ads (I have found some of my most used and useful things from ads, screw you paranoid foil-wrapped freaks, you stand out more than you think), but Facebook is beyond awful and is just used for spam, be it spammy services or games.
1) Passive-aggressive "humble bragging".
2) Parents fishing for compliments.
3) Look at my cat
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I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
I dont know about that... I'd be a bit worried if it said "parasitic life form detected! EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!" The possibilities of things going wrong from that first sentence is just too damn high.
It's not the lack of artificial intelligence which makes it insufficiently compelling to me.
It's interesting to see just how the battle to make mined data more valuable is hotting up.
Up until now, all we're really witnessed is accumulation, how companies can extract as much reliable information from you as possible. Tracking cookies, keywords etc. give a crude overview of you, but none of it is really analysed or put in context.
The next stage I suppose is making accurate assumptions on the additional data extracted, and there is an avalanche of it posted everyday. It strikes me that analysis like that is a problem that really isn't going to be feasible to solve anytime soon.
I suppose when your customers are advertisers, you're obviously going to make lots of wonderful announcements about how you are working to make advertising so much more lucrative.
Big Brother exists, but he only wants to sell you shit.
humans can't figure that &#$* out.
I have a pseudonymous Facebook account tied to a similarly pseudonymous gmail account, so I can comment on news stories and blogs. My Facebook has the minimum required data to open an account, all of it specious, and my gmail account gets hundreds of hits a month from people who wish to friend me on Facebook or who "recognize" me as an old school chum.
that it will be impossible to find any significant meaning in my facebook posts.
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I disagree. It is a nice place to collect all the idiots and a quick check whether somebody is on farcebook can safe you a lot of time. There is not intelligent life on Farcebook anyways.
And there is on Slashdot?
Certainly not in the AC population on Slashdot.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
It wouldn't consider a network containing groups like Occupy, UK Uncut and the Venus project as marketing leads for high interest predit cards, shady forex brokers or shares in Amazon.
This perpetual motion machine Lisa made is a joke, it just keeps getting faster and faster. - Homer
I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
Do you care who holds its leash, controls its mouth and directs its every move and to what end?
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Good effin' luck trying to gain insight into me based on the posts I make on your site. Especially now that I know that you're trying to figure me out as a person, what I like, what I'll buy, etc. based on those posts. (How long before FB's new algorithm decides "They're all schizoid!"?
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I would like to emphasize the nature of alpha version software to be full of bugs and lacking algorithms not thought of yet necessary to replicate the results they desire on more than a 'daytime television' level of performance, when a 3D IMAX feature is the benchmark.
Seems to be Mark "Frankenfurter" Zuckerberg making his "Rocky". Just a jump to the left....
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Nobody likes your "Top Stories" thing now. People perpetually complain about how they're missing "updates" from friends because they don't know about this "feature". And even those of us who do know about it can't turn it off because you don't make the setting "sticky". And even those of us who know about it and know about ways to make the setting "sticky" are getting a little tired of you fucking with those tools to break them.
Facebook’s journey from college friends sharing ‘whaaas uuuupp’ deeds and photo’s, to billion dollar spy machine digesting your personal details neatly packaged and resold to marketers has been interesting.. To say the least.
Here’s the most telling story about facebook: 6 years ago my 12 year old daughter (at the time) got me off myspace to this new site her and her click were using called facebook. A new sites single genius innovation updated all your friends pages with your posts as you made them. This became the perfect medium for teen girls to stay in touch with each other to instantly know who had a crush on who, and what was the hot guy of the week.
Fast forward 6 years. My daughters statement to my this past week: “Dad, nobody uses facebook but old or ghetto people!”.
She still has an account, so she’s still counted as one of their “1 BILLION USERS”, but neither her nor her friends post or regularly check FB. She doesn’t even have the FB app installed on her smart phone.
Pay attention Zuckerberg, your spy machine has been labeled “old and ghetto”. Cash out now, your relevance is over.
Cyber-hipsters. Cyber-hipsters everywhere.
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I specifically *avoid* the "News Feed" *because* it weeds stuff out. Maybe I'm weird, but I actually want to know what my friends have to say - that's *why* I'm on facebook. I don't want anyone else blocking stuff, especially when it does such a crappy job as facebook does, blocking way too much, yet not blocking the crap like "games people are playing" and "trending" that *facebook* sticks in there that I couldn't care less about.
And speaking of "anyone", one of the defenses against snooping through people's postings is "it's a computer not a person", meaning "no one will know what we find". When you get to a certain level of ai however, there's not a practical difference as far as the privacy issues people care about are concerned...
and it is depressing, reading about millions being poured into the search for "meaning" by dredging the bottomless well of narcissism we call Facebork. Thank goodness for all the wonderfully funny/insightful /. comments! I am happy and completely distracted.
There's no meaning in FB posts.
I am convinced that people are not thinking when they are posting to Facebook. However, I do not want Facebook or anyone else trying to figure out what I am thinking or going to be thinking in the future. I don't care what the reasoning behind it is. I DO NOT want my news feed tailored to what Facebook thinks I want to see. I hate that they try to do this now. I miss stuff I need to see and wind up looking on junk that I don't care about. I certainly don't want advertisements geared toward me. I understand that everything I do is being tracked. I just don't want the constant reminder. This is just my opinion though. I'm sure somebody out there loves this.