Pinterest is now using artificial intelligence to help you discover more pins

Pinterest is overhauling its related pins feature using artificial intelligence. With approximately 75 billion pins on its platform, curation is a critical part of the service Pinterest offers its 150 million users. In order to help users discover new items, recipes, and ideas that relate to their interests, Pinterest is increasingly turning to deep learning -- an AI that is fed vast amounts of data through a neural network that simulates how a human brain works until it can autonomously recognize other data. More: Facebook's new'M Suggestions' could bring more AI to Messenger The platform's related pins feature pops up beneath a Pin with similar recommendations. In the past these suggestions were surfaced from boards that the same Pin had been saved to by other users.