As Facebook Fights Fake News, LeCun Sees Bigger Role for A.I.
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The company’s top lawyer told senators that Facebook would double the number of human workers on its safety, security, and community issues teams to 20,000 by the end of 2018.But generally speaking, LeCun said A.I.’s usefulness in rooting out fake news will grow as natural language understanding technology improves.He thinks there could be a “quantum leap” if researchers figure out how to train machines to learn the way humans and animals do, endowing them with something akin to what we consider “common sense.” “But that might take a really long time,” he adds—perhaps decades.“There is a technology part of it, but it’s also very much a kind of product design, if you will—what sources people are ready to believe when signaling a piece of news as true or false.” Ultimately, LeCun thinks the solution will involve a combination of A.I.“So, the prediction is that there’s a relatively bright future for creative and artistic professions that have an authentic human application in them and [involve] creation and emotion communication.”
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