Mark Zuckerberg’s New Focus in Life is Artificial Intelligence

After the big Free Basics failure, Mark Zuckerberg is diverting his attention to Artificial Intelligence.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new focus in life is to empower people with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Zuckerberg, in a recent town hall in Berlin, Germany, was joined by Yann LeCun, Facebook’s head of AI research. The session was broadcast live via the Facebook app.

The session talked at length about Facebook’s current AI capabilities for basic pattern recognition, or “supervised learning.”

It also talked about Facebook’s future plans for AI.

Today in Berlin, we launched the Facebook AI Research Partnership Program -- a new effort to support artificial...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, February 25, 2016

Facebook presently uses a basic pattern recognition AI that is similar to IBM’s Deep Blue Computer that defeated Chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Facebook’s AI understands how users use the News Feed and then it’s capable of automatically making suggestions for them.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s town hall that talks about AI, below.

Live from Berlin talking about the latest in AI -- with Yann LeCun, director of Facebook AI Research.

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, February 25, 2016