Facebook turns to machine learning
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
"Move fast and break things." That is the Facebook motto plastered all over their California headquarters to remind engineers never to stop innovating. This week, the company moved fast and broke some news by investing in a thing called machine learning. They appointed two professors, Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus, from New York University, to lead new artificial intelligence labs in New York, California and London.