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Facebook To Design Its Own Chips For Real-Time Content Filtering
tomshardware.com ^ | May 25, 2018 at 12:30 PM | Lucian Armasu

Posted on 05/26/2018 7:05:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Facebook wants to be able to filter content, including live video streams, in real-time. The company said at a Paris technology conference that it’s going to design its own machine learning (ML) processors to achieve that goal. Facebook had previously designed its own server architecture, motherboards, and its own communication chips for the data center.

High-Performance Content Filtering

Facebook’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun said that the company would like to take down offensive videos, like someone live-streaming a murder or a suicide, as they happen. However, such capability would require “a huge amount of compute power,” as well as consume a lot of power.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: censorship; contentmoderators; facebook; livevideo

1 posted on 05/26/2018 7:05:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

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2 posted on 05/26/2018 7:13:16 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Doing more of what fails is the definition of liberalism and insanity.)
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To: BenLurkin

Who would have thought the open and tolerant left would be so enthusiastically behind censorship.


3 posted on 05/26/2018 7:16:12 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m glad I have never felt the need to join Faecesbook.


4 posted on 05/26/2018 7:56:21 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: I want the USA back

Try feminism and LGBT.


5 posted on 05/26/2018 5:04:22 PM PDT by Luke21
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