AI systems will be better than humans, says Zuckerberg.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the social media giant is actively researching AI systems “that are better than humans at our primary senses.”
According to Engadget: “They’re designing one to be able to detect everything in an image or video: people, objects, animals, backgrounds and locations, among others. If it can understand what’s in an image or video, it could, for instance, tell a blind person what it’s about. The other system they’re working on focuses on language, so that it’ll be able to translate speech to text and text from one language to another, as well as answer questions in conversational lingo.”
Zuckerberg also described a vision for the future that involved VR glasses, and revealed that Facebook is working on technology that involves drones, satellites, and even lasers to expand its Internet.org project.
“The idea is that in the future, we’ll be able to beam down internet access from a plane flying overhead or a satellite flying way overhead — and they’ll communicate down to earth using very accurate lasers to transfer data,” Zuckerberg wrote.
When Zuckerberg was asked in a Q&A session, “what’s going on with Facebook in the future,” the chief executive replied that telepathic communication seemed like it would be a natural advancement once virtual reality goes mainstream, according to Entrepreneur.
“After that, we’ll have the power to share our full sensory and emotional experience with people whenever we’d like,” he wrote. “One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology. You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too if you’d like. This would be the ultimate communication technology.”