Facebook's AI chief: 'Facebook today could not exist without AI'

Facebook just wrapped up its F8 developer conference, the company's biggest event of the year. And, in between talk of bots for Messenger, 360-degree video and virtual reality selfie sticks, one topic that was never far from the discussion was also one that we haven't heard Facebook discuss very openly in the past: artificial intelligence.

Throughout the two-day event, artificial intelligence came up again and again and on Wednesday, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Facebook's director of applied machine learning — the group tasked with AI research — took the stage to discuss how the company is tackling some of its biggest challenges. Read more...