With AI, Facebook Is Making It Easier To Find Your Friends' Photos

Facebook knows that imagery is one of the life forces sustaining the 1.86 billion people who regularly use the world's-largest communication tool, with billions upon billions of photos of babies, pets, vacations, and the like shared every year. And that's why it's vital for the company to figure out ways to surface the most relevant imagery when users scroll through their news feeds or search for things their friends or loved ones have shared. Today, Facebook announced a series of artificial intelligence innovations that it thinks will boost users' experience, technological breakthroughs that enable its AI systems to understand imagery at the pixel level. The biggest benefits of the new AI work are twofold. First is a set of a dozen new image classification actions that can be used to spell out action in photos to visually impaired users in a way that wasn't possible before. Second, the system could allow users to find photos shared by their friends or family members based on keywords even when those photos haven't been tagged or annotated with any kind of text.