Facebook is Using Artificial Intelligence To Categorize Everything You Write

Facebook has not been shy about its artificial intelligence (AI) intentions, having long announced the introduction of AI and machine learning into its core social media platform. Now it has unveiled its next step in that direction: DeepText. DeepText, Facebook's newest artificial intelligence system, is a deep learning-based, text-understanding engine that is expected to understand the textual content of several thousand posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. DeepText's goal is not only to recognize the topics that are being discussed, but to draw in Facebook services that relate to these topics. For instance, someone typing the sentence "I need a ride" in the Messenger app will be sent a prompt for using the in-app Uber or Lyft options.