Facebook's new mobile AI can process video in real time

Facebook has started rolling out its "Caffe2Go" AI platform that does advanced style transfer video effects in real time using only your iOS or Android smartphone's horsepower. While the painterly effects are cool (see the video, below), the tech behind it is much more interesting. Deep learning normally requires content "be sent off to data centers for processing on big-compute servers," Facebook wrote, but with Caffe2Go, the processing can be done "in the palm of your hand." The new platform is part of a larger AI effort that includes the machine-vision Lumos app used to suss out images that violate its community standards. It has also open-sourced similar tech on Github to non-Facebook developers.