From Finance Daily, March 3:
Can Facebook Make A New Virtual Assistant Smarter Than Siri Or Alexa?
According to the Financial Times, Facebook is working on producing artificial intelligence (AI) chips for a virtual assistant to be smarter than Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s AlexaAnd if you really trust FB; Data Center Knowledge is reporting:
Facebook is working with Intel, other tech giants and semiconductor makers to make this goal come true.
It’s goals in developing a more specialized and powerful AI chip is so that a digital assistant will have enough ‘common sense’ to communicate with a human on any subject as well as making it a practical tool in regards to controlling its social network; for instance in the area of monitoring videos and deciding what content should be allowed on its service.
Facebook has in the past been known to make its own hardware when necessary and is currently developing its own custom ‘application-specific integrated circuit’ (ASIC) chips which would be a particular kind of transmission protocol designed to specifically work with the company’s AI programs.
Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers of modern AI, says there is a need for more specialized AI chips to speed up tasks at lightening speed but with lower power consumption. He says that the company is doing anything and everything it can do in this area especially in monitoring videos flowing through their site in real time but that it will essentially require neural designs which are computer systems modeled on the human brain and nervous system.
In particular, the company is looking to new neural network architecture that will mimic aspects of human intelligence to make its systems more natural for users to interact with. Especially systems that would operate on a ‘common sense’ level, particularly for digital assistants which would have background knowledge in order for users to be able to have discussions on any topic with them, says LeCun....MORE
Facebook to Sell Bandwidth on Its New Inter-Data Center Fiber Routes
The company hopes to monetize unused bandwidth while improving broadband penetration in rural America....
That's right, you can shoot all your information through the 'book's fat pipes.
