Facebook build artificial intelligence laboratory

Yann LeCun, an authoritative professor at New York University, announced on her Facebook and Google+ pages on Monday that Facebook has formed a new artificial intelligence laboratory and invited him as a laboratory director.

Le Kun is an expert in machine learning and mobile robotics. He said Facebook’s lab will become an artificial intelligence group for Facebook, and its long-term goal is to “promote the development of artificial intelligence”.

Facebook will work with the Data Science Center of New York University to study data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Le Kun will continue to work part-time as a professor at New York University.

It is expected that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will announce the news at a conference on the neural information processing system.

Google also established an artificial intelligence laboratory called "Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory." The goal of the lab is to study whether quantum computers can solve some of the problems that traditional computers cannot. Google also hired well-known inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil to conduct research on machine learning and language processing.

In terms of advanced research, Google has a wealth of resources, and Facebook also has the same scale and strength and is not willing to lag behind. Facebook’s artificial intelligence group will be located in three locations around the world, namely Menlo Park, California, London, UK, and New York, USA.