NEW YORK, 1 Dec. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Employees of Facebook social network develop a program with elements of artificial intelligence to automatically identify and block undesirable information. This was reported in the Thursday newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
the Publication indicates that the software is particularly designed to prevent the spread of the social network of false news, as well as records containing scenes of violence. This also applies to broadcast real-time video. An important role in this development plays the French mathematician Ian Lecun, which now heads to Facebook Department to create programs using the principles of artificial intelligence.
according to the newspaper, researcher at a conference in Menlo Park (California) recognized that the filtering of information with the use of these funds can be compared to censorship. “The technology exists or can be developed. However, the question is, how has the sense to use it. And it solves not my Department” – presented in the words of Lacuna.
the Agency Reuters is also quoted by one of the leading programmers Facebook Joaquin Candela, which indicated that the software in question, embedded algorithms to “detect nudity, violence and other things” that do not comply with company policy. According to Candela, the social network has already practiced these technologies, including the search of the propaganda of extremists. Still Facebook when determining what information is undesirable, rely on user ratings, which are checked by moderators. In the official Facebook blog today posted a series of videos explaining the essence of artificial intelligence and its practical application.
In late November, the American newspaper The New York Times reported that Facebook developed software tools that allow you to censor the news feeds of social network users in various countries. According to sources from the staff of Facebook, this software is classified. It was created specifically for use in China to help promote the social network in this country. The final plans for its use yet.
Facebook is one of the leading social networks in the world. It was founded on 4 February 2004 by mark Zuckerberg and his three classmates during the training period at Harvard University. Currently, Zuckerberg is the head of the company Facebook. The monthly audience of the social network exceeds the 1.71 billion users worldwide.
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