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Facebook opens an artificial intelligence lab in Paris

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Channel: Digit · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Facebook has opened an AI lab in its Paris to an effort to make its online social network smarter and more profitable. The social networking giant says that it plans to use AI to research through the flood of text, pictures and videos on its service.

The social networking giant has been investing heavily in artificial intelligence and has set up a program called Facebook AI Research. The company already has artificial intelligence research teams in Menlo Park and in New York. The new Paris AI lab has six researchers at work and will double that number by year-end. Facebook says that the recruits for the lab will come from France's top public and private technological institutions. Facebook has hired Yann LeCun, a prominent French professor at New York University specializing in "deep learning" algorithm to head the lab. The AI applications would help to "eliminate spam and, eventually, violent videos" as well as open up new advertising avenues for Facebook. The company reportedly has doubled its European users since 2010 and has more users in Europe than in the US.
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