Pinterest doubles down on AI because 'most of Pinterest hasn’t been built yet'

When you think of artificial inteligence, Pinterest is likely not the first tech giant that comes to mind.

The company is hoping that will soon change. Pinterest is launching a new group within its organization dedicated to machine learning and AI research. Pinterest Labs, which will be run by the company's chief scientist, Jure Leskovec.

"Labs brings together top researchers, scientists, and engineers to work on image recognition, user modeling, recommender systems, and big data analytics," Leskovec writes in a post on Pinterest's blog.  Read more...