On October 31 Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the third-quarter earnings call that the company had separately formed a new artificial intelligence department and they were currently developing a new voice recognition product.
Zuckerberg said that in September this year, Facebook established an artificial intelligence department which will use the content shared by users on Facebook to carry out world-class AI research. The goal of this research is to develop new products in the field of artificial intelligence that connect the content people share so that Facebook can provide deeper answers to user questions.
Zuckerberg said that the new team currently being assembled at Facebook consists of top technical talent in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition, Facebook has also acquired a voice recognition technology company.
Currently, it is unclear how Facebook's artificial intelligence project and its voice recognition project are related. However, in general, AI testing focuses on machine responses to human conversation. Therefore, these two projects should be interconnected. Zuckerberg also mentioned these two projects one after another during the conference call.
Moreover, Zuckerberg also mentioned the progress of Facebook's search projects, namely "post search" and "graph search" during the conference call. He emphasized that Facebook has already built an index containing 1.2 trillion posts, all of which are searchable. He stated that artificial intelligence products will be driven by the "post index."
Zuckerberg said that Facebook's "Graph Search" database is larger than other web search indices. However, Graph Search is still in the early testing phase.
Currently, Facebook, Google, and Apple have all sent out a signal: they firmly believe that the future of search will be based on "conversational requests" rather than "keyboard input." The future of search will be driven by devices equipped with voice software (such as Siri and Google Now).