AI storage: Machine learning, deep learning and storage needs

Facebook has just short of 2.4 billion active users and sees 350 million photo uploads a day, plus more than 500,000 comments posted every minute. How do it track, monitor and gain value from this amount of information? "There are billions of users and no way for humans to scale to do the analytics," says Chirag Dekate, a research director covering artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning at Gartner. So, Facebook uses learning systems and AI to scan posts. "No one can analyse every video or image, for banned speech or inflammatory material, or tag or for ad revenue generation," says Dekate.