Facebook looking for meaning in user posts with 'deep learning' algorithms
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Officials at Facebook have apparently decided to get serious about making sense of posts by its vast user base—according to MIT's Technology Review, officials with the company (specifically Chief Technical Officer Mike Schroepfer) have announced that they have put together a team of eight professionals with the mission of developing what the software industry has begun calling "deep learning." Deep learning is a type of software programming where algorithms are created that allow for building simulated neural networks. Such neural networks are capable of "learning" by analyzing patterns over time. Facebook, TR reports, is hoping to use its algorithms to better target ads, and also to improve its newsfeed.