11/12/2014
Facebook to prevent you from posting content that you might
regret later
Washington: Facebook is building an artificial intelligence tool
that would warn people when they are about to do something
they might regret later such as uploading an embarrassing
photo on the social networking site.
Yann LeCun, who heads the Facebook Artificial Intelligence
Research (Fair) lab, and his team are now laying the basic
groundwork for the tool.
LeCun wants to build a kind of Facebook digital assistant that
will recognise when you are uploading an embarrassing
photo from a late-night party.
In a virtual way, LeCun said, this assistant would tap you on
the shoulder and say: "Uh, this is being posted publicly. Are
you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?"
Such a tool would rely on image recognition technology that
can distinguish between your drunken self and your sober self,
'Wired' reported.
The larger aim, LeCun said, is to create things like the digital
assistant that can closely analyse not only photos but all
sorts of other stuff posted to Facebook.
"You need a machine to really understand content and
understand people and be able to hold all that data," he said.
LeCun's Facebook lab has already developed algorithms that
examine a user's overall Facebook behaviour in an effort to
identify the right content for their news feed - content they are
likely to click on - and they will soon analyse the text users
type into status posts, automatically suggesting relevant
hashtags.
LeCun and his team are also looking towards AI systems that
can understand Facebook data in more complex ways.
"Imagine that you had an intelligent digital assistant which
would mediate your interaction with your friends and also
with content on Facebook," LeCun said.
LeCun also envisions a Facebook that instantly notifies you
when someone you don't know posts your photo to the social
network without your approval.
Source PTI
