How Facebook uses thee photos. Instagram to ameliorate his artificial intelligence

Facebook, who bought Instagram in 2012, explained  , of having collected
 a total of billions of public images.


For Facebook, your selfies,  photos of  cats or of  foods published on Instagram are a gold mine. The social network explained on Wednesday, May 2, during its big F8 annual conference that he them were using this, for training, artificial intelligence programs.

Facebook, who bought Instagram in 2012, explained  , of having collected
 a total of billions of public images. What is particularly valuable to the company, are the keywords that users associate with their clusters, indispensable for developing programs of  recognizing image.

In fact, if a machine disposse of 100,000 images associated with the hashtag #sunsets, it learns by degrees and at measure, of it  identify the sunsets in the new images. Some research teams are forced to go through manual image labeling, a long and relatively expensive job. With Instagram, So Facebook already has thanks to internautes,  a database of images and keywords.



 AIs to better , moderate ?

According to Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's technical director, the image recognition system unveiled with Instagram produces results 1 to 2% better  than that they if it had been trained with another system, such as ImageNet - a database comprised of more millions of images. manually labeled, and designed for image recognition research. 

Such artificial intelligence programs can notably serve  Facebook, to moderate content published on the social network, Mike Schroepfer explained: 'Until now, we often had to count on the portrayals (performed by users).We Had to wait for one  content to be spotted by someone  for act . '

Artificial intelligence technologies they can afford to act in proactive, automatically tracking unauthorized  by the rules of use of Facebook,, such as nudity or violent images. Currently, the company classifies the those  contents which are posted on the social network thanks to a team of about 20,000 moderators what the users  signals  them, but also, after some months, automated programs.


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