Facebook is turning to power its artificial intelligence products under the supervision of humans. (Photo : Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
Facebook is turning to power its artificial intelligence products under the supervision of humans. Its move is to make use of 1.5 billion users to train machines on fulfilling any job.
The investment for this venture has been beefed up by Facebook and has employed academic experts in AI field. According to Alexandre Lebrun, the head of Artificial Intelligence platform, the huge data collected from its users play a crucial role.
As opposed to the methods followed by Apple, Microsoft and Google, the company has formed a team of AI trainer - the humans who labor with machines that control M, a virtual assistant for facebook messenger service. It helps users do online purchase to cancelling a channel subscription. The past year has witnessed a hike in expenditure on research and development, and it is true that the company spends much of its income to the development of AI and virtual reality.
The company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has created two teams of AI experts who focuses on the product M and academic research respectively. Lebrun says it will change the way we mingle with the software and tools. The advantage of this platform is that it supports speech recognition for different technology devices like the wearables and car accessories. This platform has had a successful trial in San Francisco, which opens up scope for not only to users but also to researchers to have the opportunity to learn.
In short, M is a project that includes the task of teaching machines to operate in different languages and cultures.
