It is in Silicon Valley, California Facebook is usually hatch all its innovations. Yet for his next project, the social network with more than 1.4 billion users chose the French capital. He decided to open a research laboratory … on artificial intelligence. The opening was announced on Tuesday, the laboratory will have a half-dozen researchers from public and private institutions.
This is the first time that Facebook opens a research center outside the United States. New York and California were previously developing homes in areas such as language processing, speech recognition and image.
“A concentration of talent” to Paris
Mike Schroepfer, Technical Director the social network, said at a press briefing choose to have Paris “for its concentration of talent in the field of research in computer science and artificial intelligence.” This laboratory will “refine image recognition” to “give users complete information they want.” Users can also “sort them according to their interests.” This will finally “eliminate spam and ultimately violent images,” says Yann LeCun, a French specialist in artificial intelligence from the University of New York recruited in late 2013 by Facebook.
The FAIR team for “Facebook reseach artificial intelligence”, in Paris already has six people and will be led by Florent Perronnin, who worked in the laboratories of Panasonic, California and Xerox in Grenoble. By the end of the year, the Paris laboratory should work with a dozen people and a total of “40 to 50 people”, counting doctorates and post-doctorates, including from 20 to 25 permanent researchers.
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