How Facebook's New Machine Brain Will Learn All About You From Your Photos

How AI Sees The World Graham Murdoch Facebook users upload 350 million photos onto the social network every day, far beyond the ability of human beings to comprehensively look at, much less analyze. And so that's one big reason the company just hired New York University (NYU) machine learning expert Yann LeCun, an eminent practitioner of an artificial intelligence (AI) technique known as "deep learning." As director of Facebook's new AI laboratory, LeCun will stay on at NYU part time, while work...