Posted on 12/11/2014 3:01:56 PM PST by Brother Cracker
Facebook is working on software that could prevent users posting unflattering photos of themselves.
Combining image recognition and artificial intelligence, the system would be able to distinguish between drunk and sober pictures.
It would ask: "Are you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?"
The plan was revealed by the head of Facebook's artificial intelligence research lab.
Speaking to Wired magazine, Yann LeCun said he wanted to build a Facebook digital assistant.
In the future, this assistant might also be able to help identify when someone else has uploaded a picture of a user without permission, he said.
Facebook already uses image recognition technology to help identify faces and allow users to tag them correctly.
Increasingly the firm is using the technology in conjunction with artificial intelligence software.
AI is already being used to examine overall Facebook behaviour in order to identify the right content for news feeds, Mr LeCun told Wired.
The next stage will be to analyse text in posted statuses and automatically suggest relevant hashtags
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Yeah. That’s gotta be it...
Hell, yeah! I'm more photogenic when I'm drunk. Drive better, too!!!
You can make anything fool-proof. The trouble is, you can’t make it damn-fool-proof.
Now that there is what I call a real Red Neck workout! Who needs Planet Fitness?
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