Facebook is building an artificial intelligence tool that
would warn people when they are about to do something they might regret later
such as uploading an embarrassing photo on the social networking site.
Yann LeCun, who heads the Facebook Artificial Intelligence
Research (Fair) lab, and his team are now laying the basic groundwork for the
tool.
LeCun wants to build a kind of Facebook digital assistant
that will recognise when you are uploading an embarrassing photo from a
late-night party.
In a virtual way, LeCun said, this assistant would tap you
on the shoulder and say: “Uh, this is being posted publicly. Are you sure you
want your boss and your mother to see this?”
Such a tool would rely on image recognition technology that
can distinguish between your drunken self and your sober self, ‘Wired’
reported.
The larger aim, LeCun said, is to create things like the
digital assistant that can closely analyse not only photos but all sorts of
other stuff posted to Facebook.
“You need a machine to really understand content and
understand people and be able to hold all that data,” he said.
LeCun’s Facebook lab has already developed algorithms that
examine a user’s overall Facebook behaviour in an effort to identify the right
content for their news feed – content they are likely to click on – and they
will soon analyse the text users type into status posts, automatically
suggesting relevant hashtags.
LeCun and his team are also looking towards AI systems that
can understand Facebook data in more complex ways.
“Imagine that you had an intelligent digital assistant which
would mediate your interaction with your friends and also with content on
Facebook,” LeCun said.
LeCun also envisions a Facebook that instantly notifies you
when someone you don’t know posts your photo to the social network without your approval.
source:NDTV GADGETS
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