Artificial Intelligence, Revealed by Facebook – Towards Data Science – Medium

The idea of intelligent machines has fascinated people for centuries. And while it may seem like something out of science fiction, people today use artificial intelligence every day in their smartphones, houses, cars and more. At Facebook, AI is used for translation of text between languages, to describe images for visually impaired people, and more. In the below video, Facebook's AI research head, Yann LeCun, explains some of the key concepts that make all of this possible and why you should care. Can you tell the difference between a car and a dog?