Facebook developing AI tool to read minds, summarize articles: Report

American techlogy conglomerate Facebook on December 15 told its employees that it is developing a mind-reading Artificial intelligence tool to summarise news articles without users having to read entire piece. Even as legal challenges mount on social network, Buzzfeed reported Facebook laying out early plans for a neural sensor to detect people’s thoughts and furr transferring m into action. 

As per audio of Facebook’s end-of-year meeting obtained by media outlet, anuncements about new tool along with product demos were made in session. Despite striking controversies with its policies, hate-speech regulations, employee discontent and lawsuits ranging from state to federal administrations, Facebook’s latest Tuesday meeting was broadcast virtually to reportedly thousands of employees and was led by company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 

meeting, in which new AI tool was unveiled, also featured several pre-recorded messs of company executives to mark an end to year dominated with COVID-19 pandemic and misinformation following widespread protests across world. As per reports, despite challenges, social network hired over 20,000 new workers in 2020. 

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Facebook’s AI glasses and translator for 100 langus

AI tool for reading minds came after in October, Facebook unveiled a software based on machine learning that can translate between any pair of 100 langus without relying on English. first multilingual machine translation (MMT) model is an open-source artificial intelligence software which directly trains on one langu to ar without using English as intermediate data which helps preserve meaning.

Meanwhile, in September, Facebook unveiled what it called “building future” of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), new AR glasses that can amplify what wearer wants to hear even in a isy environment. Releasing details of insides of Facebook Reality Labs Research, California-based company elaborated on “perpetual superpowers” that are AR systems figuring out what an individual is trying to hear and n magnify it to dampen background voices.

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