AI forms backbone of Facebook's 10 year plan

Facebook has seemingly positioned artificial intelligence as one of the catalysts for innovation for the company over the next 10 years. Outlining its technology roadmap for the next 10 years, the company highlighted artificial intelligence, as well as virtual and augmented reality, as technologies to drive new features and user experience. New features highlighted include translation, photo image searches, 'talking pictures' and real-time video classification. "Artificial Intelligence will power all kinds of different services with better than human level perception and we'll see the emergence of the next major computing platform in virtual and augmented reality," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during his opening keynote at F8. "These are all elements of our 10 year roadmap to connect the world and each of these elements is in service of our mission. It's about bringing people together, that's what we do here."