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Fb accelerates AI coaching by way of culling the susceptible

Coaching a synthetic intelligence agent to do one thing like navigate a posh three-D international is computationally pricey and time-consuming. With a view to higher create those probably helpful techniques, Fb engineers derived massive potency advantages from, necessarily, leaving the slowest of the p…
Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming. In order to better create these potentially useful systems, Facebook engineers derived huge efficiency benefits from, essentially, leaving the slowest of the p…

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Author: Devin Coldewey

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Devin Coldewey has recently written 9 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have failed their task of monitoring and moderating the content that appears on their sites; what’s more, they failed to do so well before they knew it was a problem". (July 29, 2019)
  2. "Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field". (September 16, 2019)
  3. "An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook". (August 28, 2019)
  4. "An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook". (August 20, 2019)
  5. "The digitally face-swapped videos known as deepfakes arent going anywhere, but if platforms want to be able to keep an eye on them, they need to find them first. Doing so was the object of Facebooks Deepfake Detection Challenge, launched last year". (June 12, 2020)
  6. "Facebook's WhatsApp is in the midst of a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance outfit NSO Group. But before complaining about the company's methods, Facebook seems to have wanted to use them for its own purposes, according to testimony from NSO founder Shalev Hulio". (April 4, 2020)
  7. "Facebooks AI tools are the only thing standing between its users and the growing onslaught of hate and misinformation the platform is experiencing". (May 12, 2020)
  8. "If we're going to map the world, we're not going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There's just too much work to do". (July 24, 2019)
  9. "Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer". (June 4, 2020)
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