{"id":121178,"date":"2021-04-02T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/facebook-trains-a-i-to-see-using-1-billion-public-instagram-photos"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:22:20","slug":"facebook-trains-a-i-to-see-using-1-billion-public-instagram-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/facebook-trains-a-i-to-see-using-1-billion-public-instagram-photos","title":{"rendered":"Facebook trains A.I. to \u2018see\u2019 using 1 billion public Instagram photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-trains-a-i-to-see-using-1-billion-public-instagram-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pugs, Ferraris, mountains, brunches, beaches, and babies \u2014 Instagram is full of them. In fact, it\u2019s become one of the largest image databases on the planet over the last decade and the company\u2019s owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, is using this treasure trove to teach machines what\u2019s in a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook announced on Thursday that it had built an artificial intelligence program that can \u201csee\u201d what it is looking at. It did this by feeding it over 1 billion public images from Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccomputer vision\u201d program, nicknamed SEER, outperformed existing AI models in an object recognition test, Facebook said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pugs, Ferraris, mountains, brunches, beaches, and babies \u2014 Instagram is full of them. In fact, it\u2019s become one of the largest image databases on the planet over the last decade and the company\u2019s owner, Facebook, is using this treasure trove to teach machines what\u2019s in a photo. Facebook announced on Thursday that it had built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}