[Natural News]: Facebook recently announced a research project that aims to build an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of understanding the world like human beings.
The company’s AI project is called “Ego4D.” It involves a consortium of researchers from 13 labs and universities in nine countries. The project hopes to create an AI that can “understand and interact with the world like we do” in first-person. To do this, the company is planning to use a constant stream of video and audio from people’s lives.
“AI typically learns from photos and videos captured in third-person, but next-generation AI will need to learn from videos that show the world from the center of action,” says the company during its announcement of the project. “AI that understands the world from this point of view could unlock a new era of immersive experiences.”
Kristen Grauman, Facebook’s lead AI research scientist, says: “Next-generation AI systems will need to learn from an entirely different kind of data – videos that show the world from the center of the action, rather than the sidelines...<<<Read More>>>...