How Facebook aims to advance AI - SD Times

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Facebook is looking to tackle all areas of the technology. The company is already conducting research in computer vision, language understanding, machine learning, connectivity, and virtual reality, as well as on other frontiers. To showcase its dedication, the company is giving more insight into its research and breakthroughs, and is revealing what it plans to tackle next. "Facebook's long-term road map is focused on building foundational technologies in three areas: connectivity, artificial intelligence and virtual reality," wrote Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, in a release. "We believe that major research and engineering breakthroughs in each of these areas will help us make more progress toward opening the world to everyone over the next decade."