Yann Lecun, head of artificial intelligence (AI) research at Facebook Inc., gestures while speaking during a Bloomberg Television interview at Bloomberg's Sooner Than You Think technology conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Paris is playing host this week to a global gathering of tech executives and entrepreneurs at the Bloomberg conference and at Viva Tech, a three-year-old event for startups, as the French establishment unites behind a push for more tech investment in the city. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg
Artificial intelligence is helping Facebook Inc tackle problems of extremist propaganda, fake accounts and hate speech, but is still not sophisticated enough to handle many of the most pressing issues facing the social network, the company’s leading AI researcher said Wednesday.
Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist and a pioneer in the development of deep learning, said that “AI is part of the answer, but only part”, of the solution to the issues facing the company.
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