Can Facebook Make A New Virtual Assistant Smarter Than Siri Or Alexa? – Finance Daily

According to the Financial Times, Facebook is working on producing artificial intelligence (AI) chips for a virtual assistant to be smarter than Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa Facebook is working with Intel, other tech giants and semiconductor makers to make this goal come true. It's goals in developing a more specialized and powerful AI chip is so that a digital assistant will have enough'common sense' to communicate with a human on any subject as well as making it a practical tool in regards to controlling its social network; for instance in the area of monitoring videos and deciding what content should be allowed on its service. Facebook has in the past been known to make its own hardware when necessary and is currently developing its own custom'application-specific integrated circuit' (ASIC) chips which would be a particular kind of transmission protocol designed to specifically work with the company's AI programs. Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers of modern AI, says there is a need for more specialized AI chips to speed up tasks at lightening speed but with lower power consumption. He says that the company is doing anything and everything it can do in this area especially in monitoring videos flowing through their site in real time but that it will essentially require neural designs which are computer systems modeled on the human brain and nervous system.