Facebook Aims To Advance AI With Its Own Chips PYMNTS.com

Facebook wants to create its own chips to deliver the type of computing speeds necessary to take the next leap forward in artificial intelligence, according to a report in the Financial Times. The company also wants to make a digital assistant – similar to Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa – that can have conversations with users and that has "common sense." Yann LeCun, the company's chief AI scientist and a pivotal figure in modern AI, said the company also wants to use AI to help monitor video in real time and assist human moderators with content selection. Though the company is working with chip companies like Intel on the new chips, it is not ruling out the possibility of developing its own. "Facebook has been known to build its hardware when required -- build its own ASIC, for instance. If there's any stone unturned, we're going to work on it," LeCun said.