Facebook to use artificial intelligence to help blind people ‘see’
Facebook today announced that it has achieved a new feat in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research that will improve its image recognition capabilities considerably. The new technology that will be presented at leading artificial intelligence conference, NITS, next month is likely to help blind people recognize images posted on Facebook.
After a long-term research, Facebook’s AI Research (FAIR) team reached a breakthrough that uses Artificial Intelligence to train computers to distinguish between objects in photos. The social networking giant says that its new system sorts images 30 percent faster, using 10 times less training data than previous industry benchmarks.
Facebook says that blending its image recognition feature with natural language understanding technology will make it possible for visually impaired people to ask the computer what’s in a photo.
Apart from fast image recognition, FAIR has even created an AI bot that can play the board game Go quite well. It is said to be on par with a strong human player.
Source: Facebook
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