Facebook's DeepText engine is learning to read what you share like a human

Facebook has developed an engine that will enable it to better understand the context of your posts. Called DeepText, it utilizes deep neural network architecture in order to understand the text being shared. The social networking company claims that DeepText is able to understand "with near-human accuracy" the content of several thousand posts per second across 20 languages. This technology was built on ideas developed around deep learning by Ronan Collobert and Yann LeCun from Facebook's AI Research Group. Although introduced today, DeepText is already being tested across some Facebook properties, such as Messenger.