Facebook’s chief AI researcher, Yann LeCun, states the business has an interest in establishing a wise assistant that has a specific level of “common sense.”
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Facebook has its eyes on expert system chips.
In current interviews, Facebook’s chief AI researcher, Yann LeCun, stated the business is establishing its own AI chips that might assist it make more conversational digital assistants and screen Facebook material in genuine time.
“In terms of new uses, one thing Facebook would be interested in is offering smart digital assistants — something that has a level of common sense,” LeCun informed the Financial Times. “They have background knowledge and you can have a discussion with them on any topic.”
LeCun apparently desires Facebook’s digital assistant to be more like human beings and to comprehend “what will take place when the world reacts to [its] interactions with it.”
Besides clever assistants, Facebook likewise apparently prepares to establish AI chips that can keep an eye on material in genuine time in order to assist human mediators choose what to continue the social media and what to get rid of. He likewise apparently wishes to reduce the chips’ power intake and make them process info much quicker.
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Facebook in April started assembling its own team to develop chips, aiming to keep pace with tech giants like Google, Intel and Qualcomm in the artificial intelligence race. The social media giant posted jobs in two categories: AI chips and machine learning for Oculus virtual reality headsets. Facebook already uses AI to help with everything from fighting bots that set up fake accounts to fixing images of your friends.
LeCun also said at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference on Tuesday that computer chips nowadays are typically not optimized for deep learning, so people are “trying to design new ways of representing numbers that will be more efficient.”
First published on Feb. 19, 9:50 a.m. PT.
Update, 1:14 p.m. PT: Adds Yann LeCun’s statement at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
