Facebook, the world's largest social network, is breaking new ground, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and, of course, Internet.org programs that provide Internet access for developing countries around the world. Among them, Zuckerberg spent $2 billion to buy virtual reality technology company Oculusvr's landmark event, ignited the entire technology industry to virtual reality enthusiasm, 2016 will become the virtual reality helmet began to popularize the "first".
On June 30 (Tuesday), Mr. Zuckerberg talked about why Facebook is moving into programs such as AI, virtual reality, and Internet.org, in a routine online quiz. He also mentions that future smart glasses that integrate virtual reality will become as popular today as smartphones in their trouser pockets, and people may wear them all day long.
Artificial intelligence
On the same day, a Facebook user from Ireland, Jenni-moore, asked Zuckerberg questions about what the world was like in his mind 10 years later. On this issue, Zuckerberg talked about some of the company's forward-looking technology development programs.
When it comes to investing in AI technology, Zuckerberg AI can boost the IQ of internet services and become more valuable to users.
For example, he says, it would be a surprising product experience if a computer system could understand the dynamics of Facebook users ' postings in the flow of information, or analyze the interests of users and recommend what they are interested in.
In addition, for special groups such as the blind, they do not see the real world picture. It would also be a perfect experience if AI-based technology could automatically understand the content of a photo and tell the blind.
The above-mentioned examples are in the context of the Facebook AI team's research, and he himself hopes to translate these artificial intelligence dreams into reality within the next 10 years.
Over the past year or two, Facebook and Zuckerberg have been increasingly focused on innovation and research, in which Facebook has built a research and development team in the field of AI, with Yannlecun in charge. The research team has established branches in Silicon Valley and New York, and employs more than 40 researchers.
At the end of April, Facebook announced a new recruitment of four AI experts, two of whom had a background in AI research at Microsoft studies.
It is reported that Facebook AI research topics related to video content analysis, intelligent answer questions, identify the image of the characters and objects, automatically generate picture samples and so on.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Facebook has been late, Google and Microsoft have long invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and Facebook must aggressively chase these rivals.
Internet.org
Facebook's Internet.org is not a Web site, but a plan to help the world's population of developing countries access the Internet, and the main content of the Internet.org is to provide free mobile internet access, just a few days ago, when the program entered South Africa, providing free-flow access to Facebook through a carrier and the services of more than 30 other websites.
Through the Internet.org program, Facebook wants to enable people in developing countries to enjoy the most basic Internet Information services, such as job-hunting, education, keeping in touch with friends, and so on, Zuckerberg said June 30. Today, two-thirds of the world's population is not online, and within the next 10 years, Facebook plans to turn billions of people into netizens.
Zuckerberg also quoted reports from other research institutes that researchers have found that one person in every 10 new Internet access Services will be able to get out of poverty gradually, and Facebook will likely leave 400 million people out of poverty in the future. This is also the most ambitious goal Facebook can accomplish in today's world.
Virtual reality
The industry was shocked by a sudden $2 billion takeover of Oculusvr, a virtual reality technology company, in a successful transition to mobile social. And over the past year, the technology industry, especially smartphone makers, has been growing more interested in virtual reality and augmented reality.
In addition to Oculusvr, Sony, HTC, Google, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics and other manufacturers have launched virtual reality and augmented reality helmet products, is expected to be listed in 2016.
On Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg says, virtual reality will be the next important personal computing and messaging platform for smartphones.
He said that in the future people will still have a smartphone in their trouser pocket every day, but people may wear glasses hardware all day, help our daily work, and share interesting things with friends and family, this kind of sharing may be immersion, is the consumer of today is completely unexpected.
However, from Zuckerberg's point of view, the glasses he calls every day are more like a fusion of smart glasses and virtual reality helmets, and may not just be the helmet hardware that provides a virtual reality experience through virtual images.
This year's US E3 games show that online games will be the first shot of virtual reality. At present, Sony, OCULUSVR and other companies are scrambling to develop virtual reality games. After the virtual reality game promotes the sales and popularization of helmet hardware, more virtual reality applications will become reality in the field of network education, vocational training, telemedicine, and remote shopping in the future.
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