Facebook open-sources its AI-building research so you’ll stop building shitty bots

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by Sindy Cator on August 18, 2016 at 4:55 pm

Facebook wants to show you how the sausage is made. Facebook is open-sourcing its AI bot-building research. Part of its Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab’s mission, the plan is to provide better access to researchers and engineers to they, in turn, can build better bots. The code library, called ‘fastText’ is now available on Github and according to Facebook, only requires a compiler with “good C++11 support.” The appeal of fastText is in the speed and efficiency at which you can train your bot. FAIR claims you can train models “on more than 1 billion words in less than 10 minutes…