Why Facebook wants to use AI to track your conversations online - TechRepublic

As of this moment, there are more than 2 trillion posts on Facebook--a figure that expands by a billion each day. Perhaps best known as the guy who introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Bill Fernandez speaks out on Apple's founding magic, how love built the first Mac, and the interface of the future. The beauty of the internet, Packer said on Monday at EmTechDIGITAL 2016 in San Francisco, is that we now have "access to almost all the knowledge in world, from almost anywhere in the world." The "proliferation of languages and cultures on the internet," however, has created a unique problem: "There's a disconnect between the languages people speak and the content they want to access," he said. So, Facebook is using machine learning to grapple with issues like natural language understanding, translation, and interpreting slang.