Facebook just wrapped up its F8 developer conference, the company’s biggest event of the year. And, in between talk of bots for Messenger, 360-degree video and virtual reality selfie sticks, one topic that was never far from the discussion was also one that we haven’t heard Facebook discuss very openly in the past: artificial intelligence.
Throughout the two-day event, artificial intelligence came up again and again and on Wednesday, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning — the group tasked with AI research — took the stage to discuss how the company is tackling some of its biggest challenges. Read more…
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