The AI system will be able to identify what users are saying in posts and messages, which will help Facebook offer the “right tools” for a user.
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In an attempt to combat hate speech, Facebook has said its artificial intelligence (AI) systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, which can help remove such content before it hurts the sentiments of people.
“These are the big applications for Facebook’s newest artificial intelligence system called “DeepText”. With this, Facebook wants to improve the news feed that you see when you log in to Facebook, what the Messenger bots suggest in response to user queries and to further categorize search results. Is it powerful enough to decipher your text-based chatter and help improve your experience on the social network?
The plan is to use DeepText to make Facebook more useful and more interesting.
Facebook had to go beyond normal neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques with DeepText, it says, as the extensive pre-processing logic built on top of intricate software engineering and language knowledge is ineffective at picking up variations in languages and spelling when people post on the same topic.
The way it will work is this – user messages like: “I need a ride” will invoke Deep Text to ask the user if he/she would prefer a ride to be arranged with Uber or such services that sign up with Messenger.
Facebook says that they find at least 25 percent of their engineers now regularly making use of their internal AI platform to build features and for doing business.
They claim it will help people sell things, for example someone who posted “I would like to sell my old bike for $200, anyone interested” would be prompted to use the existing selling tools because DeepText would be able to detect the post was about selling something.
If and when Facebook does get there, the company is going to have to prove the conversations won’t be used for anything beyond simple suggestions-and that humans aren’t reading them.
The social media network has already a base of 1.65 billion users and 84 percent of them are outside North America.
Facebook has announced a new Artificial Intelligence, which it claims is nearly as good as humans at understanding context-oh yea!
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Development of DeepText is set to continue in collaboration with the Facebook AI Research group. The AI has is capable to analyze 400,000 stories and 125,000 comments posted every minute that’s running several thousand lines per second and that too in 20 different languages.
