A device to detect people's thoughts .. This is what happened in the last meeting inside Facebook
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A device to detect people's thoughts
Facebook told its employees that it is developing a tool to summarize news articles so that users do not have to read them. It also developed early plans for a neural sensor to discover people's thoughts and translate them into action.
Those ads and product demos were part of the social media giant's year-end meeting, which this year has sparked several antitrust controversies and lawsuits.
Buzfeed got all the votes in the meeting, which was not public; But it was broadcast almost to thousands of employees.
It is led by the CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The meeting included a large number of executives of the company, some of them described the year 2020 as a difficult year as the company survived the backlash of the police killing By George Floyd Briona Taylor and others are black Americans.
Despite the unrest, company leaders said the social networking company has gone ahead, adding about 20,000 new workers this year.
Mike Schrooper, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. With more people around the world at home, the company has seen record use.
He added that the traffic movement throughout the month of March was similar to New Year’s Day, which is usually the busiest period of the year Facebook.
Among the developments, Schrooper, promoted were the company's commitments to artificial intelligence, which is often seen internally as a panacea for social network ills.
He pointed out that data centers Facebook It receives "new systems" that would make it 10 to 30 times faster, and allow Facebook's "artificial intelligence" (AI) to fundamentally train itself.
"It is, in fact, the main tool that we currently use in production to fight hate speech and disinformation, and frankly, it is the most difficult content problem we face," Schrooper said. Facebook Now detects 95% of the hate speech on the platform.
In recent weeks, staff have backed off Facebook Departed from the idea that artificial intelligence could address problems with modifying company content, Nick writes Enzucci"BuzzFeed" obtained its farewell note in December, "AI will not save us," and added, "The (CEO's) vision Mark ZuckerbergWhich guides most of our integrity work today, is the vision in which human discourse is supervised by robots .. This is clearly a grim reality; But it is so deeply ingrained that we don't notice it anymore. "
Another departing employee estimated earlier this month that the company, even with AI and third-party supervisors, was "removing less than 5% of all hate speech posted on" Facebook".
A tool for reading articles and another for reading ideas During a meeting last Tuesday, the company also unveiled an artificial intelligence utility called TLDR, which can summarize news articles into points so that the user does not have to read the entire piece.
The tool is also supposed to provide an audio narration, as well as a voice assistant for the answer.
Other projects that Schrooper announced, and which will be shown on Tuesday, included a nerve sensor reading wills from people's brains.
After the company acquired CTRL Neural Interface Laboratories in 2019, FacebookHis progress in this field using a sensor that takes "nerve signals coming from the mind and sends them down the spinal cord along the arm, to the wrist"; This allows the user to do physical movement.
Schrooper noted that it can be used to write, mount a virtual item, or control a character in a video game. However, the chief technology officer appears atFacebook Expect criticisms of products or past failures through prolonged discussion of safety measures in such inventions.
"We have to build these inventions responsibly to gain confidence and the right to continue growth. It is imperative that we get it right so that people all over the world have access to all these amazing technologies ... without experiencing the negative aspects," he said
Those ads and product demos were part of the social media giant's year-end meeting, which this year has sparked several antitrust controversies and lawsuits.
Buzfeed got all the votes in the meeting, which was not public; But it was broadcast almost to thousands of employees.
It is led by the CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The meeting included a large number of executives of the company, some of them described the year 2020 as a difficult year as the company survived the backlash of the police killing By George Floyd Briona Taylor and others are black Americans.
Despite the unrest, company leaders said the social networking company has gone ahead, adding about 20,000 new workers this year.
Mike Schrooper, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. With more people around the world at home, the company has seen record use.
He added that the traffic movement throughout the month of March was similar to New Year’s Day, which is usually the busiest period of the year Facebook.
Among the developments, Schrooper, promoted were the company's commitments to artificial intelligence, which is often seen internally as a panacea for social network ills.
He pointed out that data centers Facebook It receives "new systems" that would make it 10 to 30 times faster, and allow Facebook's "artificial intelligence" (AI) to fundamentally train itself.
"It is, in fact, the main tool that we currently use in production to fight hate speech and disinformation, and frankly, it is the most difficult content problem we face," Schrooper said. Facebook Now detects 95% of the hate speech on the platform.
In recent weeks, staff have backed off Facebook Departed from the idea that artificial intelligence could address problems with modifying company content, Nick writes Enzucci"BuzzFeed" obtained its farewell note in December, "AI will not save us," and added, "The (CEO's) vision Mark ZuckerbergWhich guides most of our integrity work today, is the vision in which human discourse is supervised by robots .. This is clearly a grim reality; But it is so deeply ingrained that we don't notice it anymore. "
Another departing employee estimated earlier this month that the company, even with AI and third-party supervisors, was "removing less than 5% of all hate speech posted on" Facebook".
A tool for reading articles and another for reading ideas During a meeting last Tuesday, the company also unveiled an artificial intelligence utility called TLDR, which can summarize news articles into points so that the user does not have to read the entire piece.
The tool is also supposed to provide an audio narration, as well as a voice assistant for the answer.
Other projects that Schrooper announced, and which will be shown on Tuesday, included a nerve sensor reading wills from people's brains.
After the company acquired CTRL Neural Interface Laboratories in 2019, FacebookHis progress in this field using a sensor that takes "nerve signals coming from the mind and sends them down the spinal cord along the arm, to the wrist"; This allows the user to do physical movement.
Schrooper noted that it can be used to write, mount a virtual item, or control a character in a video game. However, the chief technology officer appears atFacebook Expect criticisms of products or past failures through prolonged discussion of safety measures in such inventions.
"We have to build these inventions responsibly to gain confidence and the right to continue growth. It is imperative that we get it right so that people all over the world have access to all these amazing technologies ... without experiencing the negative aspects," he said
