Here is a bullet point summary of Mark's answers at NIPS 2013:
- wants to publish.
- separate from the ads team (ads team is already a ML powerhouse) and the newsfeed or photo teams.
- wants to use the dataset of FB that he "can't" let out for privacy concerns.
- staff: Marc'Aurelio Ranzato / Yann Lecun (director) / Rob Fergus, a lot of other rumors going around at NIPS.
- acquisition (acquihired?) of a speech-related startup (Mobile Technologies) is in this direction too, using FB messenger's video calls as data.
- will invest in clusters (mentioned GPUs) / large scale (obvious)
- wants to take advantage of multimodal input (ImageNet-like problems with tagged photos and instagram)
- compared the long-time vision he has for the AI/ML lab(s) as an exo-cortex which is the next step after cortex -> neo-cortex.
- http://imgur.com/QDDDMGm Mark Zuckerberg / Yoshua Bengio
- there should be the video on the NIPS website at some point.
To sum up, pretty good PR, with seemingly honests short-time goals (solve ImageNet-like problems) and long-time vision ("strong" AI).
- wants to publish.
- separate from the ads team (ads team is already a ML powerhouse) and the newsfeed or photo teams.
- wants to use the dataset of FB that he "can't" let out for privacy concerns.
- staff: Marc'Aurelio Ranzato / Yann Lecun (director) / Rob Fergus, a lot of other rumors going around at NIPS.
- acquisition (acquihired?) of a speech-related startup (Mobile Technologies) is in this direction too, using FB messenger's video calls as data.
- will invest in clusters (mentioned GPUs) / large scale (obvious)
- wants to take advantage of multimodal input (ImageNet-like problems with tagged photos and instagram)
- compared the long-time vision he has for the AI/ML lab(s) as an exo-cortex which is the next step after cortex -> neo-cortex.
- http://imgur.com/QDDDMGm Mark Zuckerberg / Yoshua Bengio
- there should be the video on the NIPS website at some point.
To sum up, pretty good PR, with seemingly honests short-time goals (solve ImageNet-like problems) and long-time vision ("strong" AI).