Facebook Will Start Scanning 10,000 Posts a Second to Make Comments Less Terrible

While Facebook has lot of noise around using artificial intelligence to better sort photos and videos, text is still an huge part of the Facebook experience. Today, we got a look behind the scenes on how AI is helping Facebook sift all that text and improve the Facebook experience with "Deep Text" -- a system developed by Facebook's AI labs that scans 10,000 posts every second in 20 languages. People post more than 1 billion items -- statuses, links, photos, whatever -- to Facebook every day, says a company spokesperson. Deep Text is "deep learning-based text understanding engine," as Facebook puts it. Its ability to understand text like a human would is already being put to work in Facebook Messenger. And Facebook plans to take it a lot further.