{"id":9306,"date":"2013-12-09T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T06:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2013-12-09T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T06:11:18","slug":"facebook-steps-up-artificial-intelligence-efforts-with-new-research-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/facebook-steps-up-artificial-intelligence-efforts-with-new-research-lab","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Steps Up Artificial-Intelligence Efforts With New Research Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/author\/mikeisaac\/\" rel=\"author\">Mike Isaac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is diving headlong into AI.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to <del datetime=\"2013-12-09T19:11:18+00:00\">launch<\/del> expand its research laboratory dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence, and has hired <a href=\"http:\/\/yann.lecun.com\/\">New York University professor Yann LeCun<\/a> to spearhead the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, according to LeCun, is long-term: To bring about major advances in the field, while doubling down in a research partnership with NYU to intensely study machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the hire, which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/nips.cc\/Conferences\/2013\/Sponsors\">at an industry conference<\/a> on Monday, comes courtesy of LeCun himself, who posted his new position at Facebook to <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+YannLeCunPhD\/posts\">his Google+ and Facebook pages<\/a> (thanks, Yann!). LeCun plans to continue working and teaching at NYU, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new AI Group at Facebook will have locations in Menlo Park, CA, in London, UK, and at Facebook\u2019s new facility in New York City, one block away from NYU\u2019s main campus,\u201d LeCun wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20131209\/facebook-steps-up-artificial-intelligence-efforts-with-new-research-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Isaac Facebook is diving headlong into AI. The company plans to launch expand its research laboratory dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence, and has hired New York University professor Yann LeCun to spearhead the effort. The goal, according to LeCun, is long-term: To bring about major advances in the field, while doubling down in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}