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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.
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.