Facebook's New AI Initiative May Understand Videos Like Humans

American technology conglomerate, Facebook has announced that it trying to teach artificial intelligence (AI) systems to understand what is happening in videos like humans. This latest initiative can turn out to be a significant breakthrough if it succeeds.

Facebook has managed to train machine vision models on billions of images from Instagram and has been taking steps to make machine-understand videos.

Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google has been collecting resources from their millions of users and have managed to get ahead in various areas. This is one of the biggest hurdles and competitive advantage in AI

“By learning from global streams of publicly available videos spanning nearly every country and hundreds of languages, our AI systems will not just improve accuracy but also adapt to our fast-moving world and recognize the nuances and visual cues across different cultures and regions,” Facebook explained in a blog.

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The new project is called Learning from Videos and it is part of Facebook’s “broader efforts toward building machines that learn as humans do”.

Facebook said results from the new project will be used to create a new content recommendation system and moderation tools, and can also be used to do more in the future.

The success of the new project will give the company “unprecedented insight into users’ lives” and allow Facebook to analyses users’ hobbies, interests, preferences of brand and types of cloths, etc.