Facebook Is Designing Its Own Chips to Help Filter Live Videos
- Company is working on more energy-efficient semiconductors
- AI scientist LeCun says more software cos working on hardware
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Facebook Inc. is working on designing computer-chips that are more energy-efficient at analyzing and filtering live video content, its chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun said.
“Let’s imagine someone uses Facebook Live to film their own suicide or murder. You’d like to be able to take down that kind of content as it happens,” LeCun said Friday in Paris.