t-Facebook joins NYU in artificial intelligence lab

Machine Learning

Facebook joins NYU in artificial intelligence lab

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Facebook unveiled plans Monday on a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data.

The lab will work on "machine learning," -- a branch of artificial intelligence that involves computers "learning" to extract knowledge from giant data sets.