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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Facebook and AI, Learning in Assistants

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

" .... What we are hoping to do is take this digital assistant idea to the next level. If you think about Siri, Cortana, Google Now - most of the answers they provide are scripted. Someone has imagined the possible answers and figured out a tree of possibilities. If you go outside of the script, the machines responds with a joke or tries to get out of it.  All of its behaviour is programmed by humans but what we are trying to do with M is test the ability of a machine to learn. It is very ambitious, very risky and just a small experiment for the moment but we will see how it goes over the next year or two. We are very excited about it because it is really the essence of AI - a machine that you can talk to and that can help you. .... "

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