{"id":341766,"date":"2017-05-24T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1493916"},"modified":"2017-05-24T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:00:45","slug":"judah-vs-the-machines-facebooks-dog-breed-recognition-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/judah-vs-the-machines-facebooks-dog-breed-recognition-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Judah vs. the Machines: Facebook\u2019s dog-breed-recognition robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the road to making machines artificially intelligent, everything needs to be taught, even the facial structure of a dog that looks like a mop.<\/p>\n

In this episode of Judah vs. the Machines, actor Judah Friedlander sets about his goal of \u201cchallenging the world\u2019s top artificial intelligence robots for the sake of humanity\u201d by taking a look at Facebook\u2019s applied machine learning team.<\/p>\n

The actor, best known for his portrayal of Frank Rossitano on NBC\u2019s much-loved 30 Rock, descends on the Menlo Park campus at 1 Hacker Way to get a little taste of what life is like working at one of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies. After exhausting all of the campus\u2019s free perks, Friedlander tests the wits of FB\u2019s machine learning team. The AI he\u2019s examining isn\u2019t combating fake news or sensitive content on Facebook Live \u2014 it\u2019s computer vision tech doing the all-important task of guessing dog breeds.<\/p>\n

To find out what the deal was with Facebook\u2019s dog love, Friedlander had the chance to sit down with Joaquin Candela, who is the director of applied machine learning at Facebook.\u00a0After discussing some of Facebook\u2019s efforts in promoting their systems\u2019 natural language recognition skills, Friedlander offered his own ideas for the future of communication before taking on the company\u2019s dog-breed-fussing, AI which you can see in the video above.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s AI is appropriately not perfect, but does manage to best Friedlander. One of the breeds that befuddles both Judah and the FB AI is the Puli, which is the type of dog Mark Zuckerberg owns (Beast<\/a>). There\u2019s never really a clear explanation of why Facebook has been training its system to do this, but I guess the better question is why would you not want a \u201cShazam for dogs\u201d?<\/p>\n

See all eight episodes of Judah vs. the Machines\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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\"\" On the road to making machines artificially intelligent, everything needs to be taught, even the facial structure of a dog that looks like a mop. In this episode of Judah vs. the Machines, actor Judah Friedlander sets about his goal of “challenging the world’s top artificial intelligence robots for the sake of humanity” by taking a look at Facebook’s applied machine… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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