Facebook AI Research

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9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2014 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about Facebook AI Research, oldest first

Dec 18, 2014 positive
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LeCun: Facebook stole Word2Vec creator Tomasz Mikolov from Google
“I should mention that Tomasz Mikolov now works at Facebook AI Research. I stole him from Google.”
Yann LeCun Dec 18, 2014 ▶ 28:34 Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Nov 9, 2016
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FAIR prioritizes minimal hand-crafted rules to force machine learning innovation
“Our approach here is basically to try to put as little and crafted features of rule as possible in the system and try to make it learn as much as it can.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 24:26 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016
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FAIR shifted from children's book benchmarks to Wikipedia question answering
“And at the end of last year, we also released something that is the same kind of ideas using, like, ah, some short stories, but, ah, that we use from, like, children books, real children books, and now we are moved to a train to answer question, ah, directly f…”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 13:38 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bordes: FAIR expects single reasoning method to solve all QA cases
“We expect basically the same method to be able to solve all the cases, because we are looking for method that can do reasoning, whether it's a very simple situation on Wikipedia.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 14:03 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016
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Bordes: Pose keypoints and action detection represent edge of AI research
“So the key pose and the action detection is basically at the edge of what we are doing now in the research.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 3:46 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016 positive
Prediction Held up
Bordes predicts large AI models will run on mobile devices by 2017
“And next year we will run them on mobile, so.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 6:56 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016
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Bordes: Facebook AI Research is not tied to specific product groups
“And actually the lab is not even tied to any application or any product group.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 21:34 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016 neutral
Insight
Visual question answering is harder than captioning because it requires reasoning
“So, what people try to do now is that to move to caption what's called caption generation, which was actually super promising, but actually people realized that actually the machine wasn't that good, to what's called now visual question answering, which is mor…”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 9:15 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Nov 9, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bordes: Facebook AI Research has about 80 people, mostly researchers
“I mean, we're growing super fast, but I would say we're now 80. 80 people. Like 50 or 60 researchers and the rest of engineers.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 17:25 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
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