Facebook says its new Instagram-trained A.I. represents a big leap forward for computer vision – Fortune

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Facebook has created an artificial intelligence system that may make it much more efficient for companies to train such software for a range of computer vision tasks, from facial recognition to functions needed for self-driving cars. The company unveiled the new system in a series of blog posts Thursday. Today, training machine-learning systems for such tasks often requires hundreds of thousands or even millions of labeled data sets.