March 12, 2021 05:00 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22326975/facebook-training-ai-public-videos-digital-memories
Facebooks next big AI project is training its machines on users public videos
Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on Facebook users’ public videos.
Access to training data is one of the biggest competitive advantages in AI, and by collecting this resource from millions and millions of their users, tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have been able to forge ahead in various areas. And while Facebook has already trained machine vision models on billions of images collected from Instagram, it hasn’t previously announced projects...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22326975/facebook-training-ai-public-videos-digital-memories
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