Facebook's New AI May Have Common Sense Like Humans

AI chips may be Facebook’s next big deal.

Yann LeCun, the company’s chief AI scientist, said during recent interviews that Facebook is working on its own artificial intelligence processors. With these chips, the company can create more conversational digital assistants to monitor the content on its platform in real time.

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist

LeCun also said:

He wants this digital assistant to be like humans more and to understand what happens when people respond to the interactions with it.

Not only digital assistants, but the social network also has plans to develop AI chips that can manage content in real-time and help human moderators to make decisions in keeping or removing contents on its platform. LeCun also expressed his ambition to make the chip more power-efficient and process faster.

In April, Facebook began building a team focusing on developing chips, to catch up with Qualcomm, Intel, and Google in the AI field. The tech giant divided jobs into two sections: AI processors, and machine learning to make Oculus VR headsets. Currently, the company makes use of AI for assistance in all sections like editing photos and fighting robots which creates fake accounts.

On Tuesday, at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, LeCun said that existing computer chips are commonly not designed to enhance deep learning, so people are trying to come up with new ways to represent numbers more efficiently.

In separate news, the social giant recently suspended three popular pages backed by the Russian government. In particular, the pages were run by a company whose majority stakeholder is RT – a company backed by the Russian government. Facebook order the company to disclose information about who’s behind the pages if it wants to get the pages back. This appears to be among recent attempts from the social network to tackle misinformation.