What Does Facebook Want With AI?

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Prof Yann LeCun is a hugely influential force in the field of Deep Learning and is now director of AI research at Facebook.

Study into artificial intelligence research is no longer the preserve of universities - the big technology firms are also keen to get involved. Google, Facebook and others are busy opening AI labs and poaching some of the most talented university professors to head them up. 

What is artificial intelligence?
It is the ability of a machine to do things that we deem intelligent behaviour for people or animals. Increasingly it has become the ability for machines to learn by themselves and improve their own performance. Can a machine ever think in the way humans understand the activity? The machines that we have at the moment are very primitive in a way. Some of them, to some extent, emulate the basic principles of how the brain works - they are not at all a carbon copy of brain circuits but they have a little bit of the same flavour.

They are very small by biological standards. The biggest neural networks that we simulate have in the order of a few million simulated neurons and a few billion synapses - which are the connections between neurons - and that would put them on par with very small animals, so nothing like what we would think as humans.

In that sense they are not thinking and we are still very far from building machines that can reason, plan, remember properly, have common sense and know how the world works. But what they can do is recognise objects and images with what seems to be superhuman performance at times and they can do a decent job at translating text from one language to another or recognising speech. So in that sense they do things that humans would consider an intelligent task.
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