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Why is Facebook doing robotics analysis?

It is a bit of unusual to hear that the sphere's primary social neighborhood is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, on the other hand Fb is an enormous crew with many competing priorities. And while the ones robots are not straight away going to have an effect on your Fb experience, what the co…
It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities. And while these robots aren't directly going to affect your Facebook experience, what the co…

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Author: Devin Coldewey

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  1. "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)
  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 20, 2019)
  4. "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)
  5. "Facebooks battle against misinformation will never be over at this rate, but that doesnt mean the company has given up". (November 19, 2020)
  6. "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)
  7. "Google is currently under fire for apparently pushing out a researcher whose work warned of bias in AI, and now a report from Reuters says others doing such work at the company have been asked to strike a positive tone and undergo additional reviews for research touching on sen". (December 24, 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. "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)
  10. "Facebook has challenged the FTCs antitrust case against it using a standard playbook that questions the agencys arguably expansive approach to defining monopolies". (March 10, 2021)
  11. "Facebook has agreed to block access to certain anti-government content to users in Vietnam, following months of having its services throttled there, reportedly by state-owned telecoms". (April 22, 2020)
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