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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The web inventor exhorts to regularize the artificial intelligence

During a roundtable about the future of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee has opposite a human vision of technology face to Facebook, Amazon and eBay.

Dad upset of the World Wide Web, who deplored more and more regularly the derives, the British Tim Berners-Lee took advantage of a roundtable in Lyon, Thursday April 26th at the annual global conference of the Internet, to launch a cry from heart to the intentions of its great multinationals on issues of personal data and of the Artificial Intelligence (IA), two intimately linked issues.

'Personal data is not the new petroil. If I give you my data, these it's not like the petroil, it's not like water, I still have it. These are mine. '

His speech echoes a very widespread idea , corespondent the 'date' will be the black gold of the 21st century.

 The Web giants, more conciliatory.

This very applauded statement contrasts with those of other participants in this roundtable - The born of Amazon, Facebook, of eBay and Google - defending industrial interests. Re-taking a  henceforth known formula, Ruhi Sarikaya, director of Applied Sciences of the Amazon, has highlighted the strategic importance of searches around AI and automatic learning, whose data is fuel.

'I think that in the next five years we will be considering the date as an exchange currency,,' said Kira Radinsky, eBay's scientific director. Herself do not belong to companies, but to me, and  will furnish us in Exchange for a service, mastering this change. '

A proposal far from disinterested. 'Must render the power to the users, allow them understand what is happening, and give them honest compensation. If users are winners, we are also , 'defends the head of the online commerce site.

Certains, see even,    in the sharing of personal data , a moral obligation. . 'Not sharing health data is  cause of inadvertent the death of someone. The same  the data tied to the   terrorism, 'Mrs. Radinsky in an argument that, did not 
make hard,  unanimity in the room.  'Data is my right, I want to   can  give them ,  it to a company, ,' says Tim Berners-Lee.

'If you send them in the cloud to a third party, like an insurance company, I'm just a point for them.' But,  me I am me,and I will keep ye the control ' '

The GAFA defend self-regulation

The debate was held because on May 25 the European Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) will enter into force, a new law forbidding in particular companies to exploit information about their users without their consent and to which  the giants of the Web dont have other choice than to conform

Some try too much from now on to show white paw 'We need people to trust Facebook, we want more transparency,' promises thus Antoine Bordes, who heads in IA from  Facebook in Paris research office in Paris, the FAIR. While recalling the recent Initiatives of the platform to allow its users to access their file history and eliminate them.

But this law does not cover everything. 'Regularization of AI remains to be done,' points out Tim Berners-Lee. Or, web giants are rather reticent to the irruption of the politics in their technological projects and the most strategic ones, preferring to play the card of a become industry more mature and responsible . ' It needful etic formation to use of data and this kind of program has emerged in recent years, it is completely new', Mr Bordes points out.

The risks of the  IA sideslip 

Vinton Cerf, from Google, an engineer and one of the founding fathers of the Internet, also calls for an controlled innovation from interior:

'The real answer ,it is that we needful must have developers with a true sense of ethics. It's not easy, the whole world will not agree. But I call on governments, not to jump Right away in the control of AI, because we do not even know the potential of these instruments.And at the same time, it will be necessary to be  vigilant .

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The social network has announced several measures to change his newsfeed in recent weeks and says want to favor ' The commitment citizen '

The social network has announced several measures to change his newsfeed in recent weeks and says want to  favor ' The commitment citizen '





Facebook announced again , Monday January 29, a modification of the yarn of the  newsfeed  That is displayed at his users . From now on, local information will be valued in this ' news stream ' in the United States at first, and then in other countries later this year.





Specifically, Facebook , number to identifying local sources of information    by analyzing the concentration of clicks in a given geographic area. ' If a publication originates from a source from your area, and you follow its page or your friends  share it,  this It should appear higher in your news Feed', writes Facebook. ' There is no restriction of  eligible regarding the sources ', says the company, ' which means that major local media will benefit, but also publications that focuses on  topics of niche  as the local sport. '



The objective displayed is to propose information presented of Facebook as less clivantes . Mark Zuckerberg, who presented this initiative on his Facebook page, evokes studies that ' reading local information is directly linked to citizen participation '.



For Mark Zuckerberg, This serves  ' to ensure that the time we spend on Facebook is more precious '. This is a new Facebook creed that decided at the beginning of the year to completely revise the hierarchy of publications in the current thread of the users news, up to  them propose  ' of relevant content ' and come back to ' what Facebook does more important: help,to  connect with each other


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