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> They try to claim that Facebook "failed" to create a workable AI, but I seriously doubt that Facebook has given up on the project. On the one hand, they prob
by dbt00 6y ago
> They try to claim that Facebook "failed" to create a workable AI, but I seriously doubt that Facebook has given up on the project.
On the one hand, they probably haven't. On the other hand, they provably aren't as close as they thought they were, and may be very far away.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoThe cynic in me thinks they're still working on it, but the first test cases they're concerned with are about removing copyrighted content. Then they'll see how to apply it to other problems.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoMy understanding (from talking to FB employees over the years) is that they have been trying to do this for at least a decade (as have Google). The fact that they haven't fired all the moderators yet should give you an idea of how difficult it is.
- octoberfranklin 6y agoThis ought to be declared the one and only trustworthy measure of the AI/ML hype. How many human moderators does Facebook employ? Zero? AI lives up to the hype!
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah, but it's AI-complete. Its an adversarial problem also, as people are really motivated to share their content. It reminds me of the filters on facebook that kept killing compliant nude pictures of larger people, because the model had obviously just learned to count pixels of skin. It'll be a long time before this work gets automated, and until then, they should support their moderators.