Facebook is working on AI that understands what’s in your photos
Nov03
To make your Newsfeed better, Facebook is working on artificial intelligence that can understand what’s going on in your photos. Speaking at Web Summit, Facebook’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, detailed a new system the company has been developing to understand what’s happening in photos and translate that into natural language elements. One demonstration showed a photo in Newsfeed of a man skateboarding, which the computer deconstructed and described in words to understand what was happening. It broke it down into what it saw “a skateboard, a man, a trick, his skateboard” and what may have been happening “doing, riding, is doing” and…
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