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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.'"
if len(post) > 0:
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?
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
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 Launches Advanced AI Effort To Add Meaning To Your Posts
There, fixed that.
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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
is no match for natural stupidity.
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..
1) Passive-aggressive "humble bragging".
2) Parents fishing for compliments.
3) Look at my cat
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
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.
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.