Facebook Moves Forward With Big Plans for Artificial Intelligence
An arms race between Google Brain and Facebook AI Group
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Mike Isaac | All Things D
The new AI Group at Facebook will have locations in Menlo Park, CA, in London, UK, and at Facebook’s new facility in New York City, one block away from NYU’s main campus.
The initiative comes as Google also steps up its efforts in the artificial-intelligence field. Last year, the search giant hired leading AI research scientist (and dyed-in-the-wool futurist) Ray Kurzweil to head its AI and deep-learning efforts.
Expect an arms race between Google Brain, Facebook AI Group and other tech companies that will desperately try to keep up.
The goal:
To bring about major advances in the field, while doubling down in a research partnership with NYU to intensely study machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence.
Facebook is diving headlong into AI.
The company plans to launch expand its research laboratory dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence
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