A recent press release reports, “The Bundeskartellamt has imposed on Facebook far-reaching restrictions in the processing of user data. According to Facebook’s terms and conditions users have so far only been able to use the social network under the precondition that Facebook can collect user data also outside of the Facebook website in the internet […]
Facebook and Microsoft introduce ONNX, A New Ecosystem for Interchangeable AI Frameworks
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release out of Facebook written by Joaquin Quinonero Candela, “Facebook and Microsoft are today introducing Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format, a standard for representing deep learning models that enables models to be transferred between frameworks. ONNX is the first step toward an open ecosystem where AI […]
Is Facebook Taking on Google with Deep Text, Its New AI Engine?
by Angela Guess Mike Murphy reports in Quartz, “Today, Facebook announced Deep Text, an AI engine it’s building to understand the meaning and sentiment behind all of the text posted by users to Facebook. In a blog post, Facebook said that it was building the system to help it surface content that people may be […]
How Facebook Developed Its Machine Learning Platform
by Angela Guess Hope Reese recently wrote in TechRepublic, “It’s no longer up for debate that AI is set to have a major impact on most businesses, if it isn’t already—and any company that wants to stay ahead must figure out how to integrate the new technology into its structure. But how is a successful […]
Facebook’s 10 Year Plan: AI, Drones, and Virtual Reality
by Angela Guess Jennifer Booton recently wrote in MarketWatch, “Facebook Inc. plans to eventually make an augmented reality device so small it might one day resemble a pair of glasses. The company unveiled this Google Glass-like aspiration along with drones, solar-powered planes and bots as part of a 10-year road map for the company on […]
Facebook Is Donating 25 GPUs to European Labs for AI Research
by Angela Guess Natalie Gagliordi recently reported in ZDnet, “Facebook is donating 25 state-of-the-art GPU servers to European research labs in an effort to spur advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement from Berlin (via live video, of course) on behalf of the social network’s AI Research division […]
Facebook Leverages Machine Learning to Measure Population Density
by Angela Guess Daniel Terdiman reports in Fast Company, “Leveraging in-house data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence expertise, Facebook has come up with what it says are the most accurate and scalable population density models ever assembled. The work, announced today in conjunction with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was ostensibly inspired by […]
Key AI Investment Stats: Facebook and Google Lead the Way
by Angela Guess Noah Kulwin recently wrote in Re/code, “Facebook and Google are two of Silicon Valley’s leaders in artificial intelligence. They have both invested heavily in AI, hiring loads of top researchers to develop projects like the Facebook Messenger “smart” assistant M, or Google’s in-the-works AI-powered chatbot. While Facebook and Google are duking it […]
Big Data, Open Data, and Deep Learning
by Angela Guess Hannah Augur recently wrote in Dataconomy, “Deep Learning is one of the key parts of data science. As data becomes increasingly important and accessible, today’s biggest companies are rapidly investing in deep learning. In fact, it is considered to be so vital to future technologies that many are sharing their own results […]