Your Facebook news feed could be in for some serious nerdification. The company has launching a research lab for artificial intelligence, and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is talking about the project at a conference today.
He and Michael Shroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, are attending the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference along with Yann LeCun of New York University’s Center for Data Science, according to a Facebook post from LeCun.
NYU is partnering with Facebook on research into artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, according to LeCun’s post. Facebook researchers focused on artificial intelligence will work out of California, New York, and London, the post states.
This isn’t Facebook’s first push into AI. The group was actually formed in September, according to comments Zuckerberg made during Facebook’s most recent earnings call in November.
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