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Your Instagram #Dogs and #Cats Are Training Facebook's AI

Your Instagram #Dogs and #Cats Are Training Facebook's AI

Your Instagram #Dogs and #Cats Are Training Facebook's AI

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

May 3, 20186m 38s

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Show Notes

Using a social network like Facebook is a two-way street, part-shrouded in shadow. The benefits of sharing banter and photos with friends and family—for free—are obvious and immediate. So are the financial rewards for Facebook; but you don’t get to see all of the company’s uses for your data. An artificial intelligence experiment of unprecedented scale disclosed by Facebook Wednesday offers a glimpse of one such use case.

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