All your dumb posts are making Facebook’s DeepText AI smarter

Facebook has given details on its DeepText artificial intelligence that scans “several thousand” posts per second to analyze them for sentiment and meaning in more than 20 languages. DeepText’s ability to connect disparate tools – like different neural network architectures – help it meet its true goal: to better understand what content you want to see. For an ad-funded behemoth like Facebook, it’s a core focus. In some forms that will be learning what content you want to see, through things like suggested posts, but in others that could be by stopping spam from making its way through the filters…
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