Facebook, boosting artificial-intelligence research, says it’s ‘not going fast enough’ -- The Washington Post

For more details: Facebook AI Research Expands With New Academic Collaborations (Facebook Newsroom)

"The world’s biggest social network said it would recruit high-profile engineers and expand its AI-research division to roughly 170 scientists and engineers across eight global offices, including Paris, Pittsburgh, Montreal, London and Tel Aviv. The expansion of the international labs and new academic partnerships will be devoted to the study of robotics, virtual animation, learning machines and other forms of AI.

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist and an early machine-learning architect, said the expanded research effort was pushed by Facebook leaders such as CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “AI has become so central to the operations of companies like ours, that what our leadership has been telling us is: ‘Go faster. You’re not going fast enough,’ ” LeCun said."

Facebook, boosting artificial-intelligence research, says it’s ‘not going fast enough’ -- The Washington Post