In its efforts to help blind people "see" what is in a photo, Mark Zuckerberg and the team are currently testing an artificial intelligence (AI) feature for the giant social media network - Facebook.
FacebookChief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer confirmed during the Web Summit held in Dublin that Facebook is trying out a technology that would enable a machine to identify the different parts of an uploaded image and that is capable of answering questions related to that particular image. This, Schroefer said, would be a great help for those who are visually impaired.
Schroepfer said: "We built a system that allows you to ask questions about a photo that it's never seen before....So much of the world is visual. So much of sharing on social networks is photos and videos. Much of your brain is dedicated to processing visual imagery. So one of the keys to building systems that work is teaching computers to understand the visual world."
Reports on the ongoing trial and development as well as the breakthrough on image segmentation will be revealed by next month. As of the moment, that particular AI, as reported in Bills Insider, is "able to beat a few of the best amateur Go players in the world."
Facebookfounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said: "What you're seeing is not fake; it's a real system, and it's able to answer basic questions about images".
Facebook, with the help of Google and Apple, has been aiming and working hard to develop AI capabilities that could be used for the social media site as well as for the other companies involved in the endeavour.
It can be recalled that earlier this year, the giant social media network also revealed that it was trialing a service that is similar to Apple's Siri. It is done through its Messenger app and is called as "M". The only difference is that instead of using just AI, "M" would also have real people behind it to perform tasks that machines are not capable of performing.
