According to foreign media reports, Facebook plans to expand its research laboratory to specialize in artificial intelligence technology, and has hired New York University professor Yann LeCun as a laboratory leader. According to LeCun, the goal of the laboratory is long-term: to achieve significant progress in this area, the laboratory maintains research partnerships with New York University to study the fields of machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to announce the news at an industry meeting in Monday, but Professor LeCun posted his new post on Facebook ahead of schedule and will continue to teach at NYU.
The announcement comes as Google is also interested in entering the field of artificial intelligence. Last year, the search giant hired cutting-edge AI research scientist Rey Cougevere to focus on artificial intelligence and deep learning. Meanwhile, Facebook plans to continue to buy potential companies or recruit new employees.
Since the early 50 's, artificial intelligence has undergone a cycle of revival-decline-revival, and today's revival is closely related to the rise of computational power and the deep learning algorithm. Following Google's successful application of deep learning to improve the accuracy of image recognition and speech recognition, more and more companies are using AI as a way to improve their business.
2. Ping An Bank mobile payment platform low-key beta
By China Ping An group chairman Ma called "Subversive", "the Magic" mobile payment tool electronic wallet has been quietly on the line recently, the name "friend Money wallet" product looks very simple and clear, in its primary form, this is a social function of mobile payment platform. One wallet implanted fast payment, transfer, recharge and other functions, but currently can only be linked to ping an bank debit card.
People close to peace say Ping An wants to take over personal financial management in the "Magic Wallet", the financial service advantage of the safe financial licence will be transplanted into the "magical purse", in which the user can realize insurance, investment, shopping and so on, and replace the traditional cash and credit card to a certain extent. In one wallet PC client, has already assembled including walks the network, the new egg, the box-office net, the Li Ning Official mall, the Xinwanzer Big pharmacy and so on more than 20 merchant, these are the signing merchant which from the card will copy over.
In the direction of internet finance, Ping An group of early Wanritong, one account in the PC client basically covers the insurance, banking and other business, in the mobile finance, only ping an bank launched a safe and fast pay, ping ' an pocket bank, the same has the function of collection and payment.
The safe Internet financial strategy is one of the fastest and clearest in the bank's layout. The opening of the payment box thinking is very positive, all future payment tools will no longer "indispensable", the bank through the open interface and even do it itself will be normal, peace is the fastest. and social functions at present to see relatively chicken, users are also difficult to "social", only as a submunitions, waiting for chess.
3.12306 will shield network grab ticket software
12306 new version of the official online trial run, the introduction of automated inquiries and other functions, means that 12306 Web sites to achieve automatic ticket. Yesterday, Wang Mingzhe, a deputy researcher at the Center for ticket system monitoring at the Iron Academy, said the new feature was not for which browsers or Plug-ins. will be based on the network to rob the ticket software to affect the size of the system, to carry out the corresponding shielding measures, he said that the ticket is inserted in the 12306 Web site of a technology, for ordinary travellers, from personal information security, capital security, transaction security, will have a corresponding impact, he does not recommend this grab ticket plug-ins.
The railway passenger ticket system monitoring center located in the Iron Academy courtyard has the huge display screen. Real-time monitoring of the number of Internet ticketing, including Internet booking, the number of return tickets, as well as the total number of bureau real-time ticketing. Recently, the display has a new feature, real-time monitoring of the number of mobile phone client ticket. The new on-line mobile phone client has no brush ticket function, yesterday, the Ticket system Monitoring Center related Personage said, the handset brushes the ticket to occupy certain flow, if has been the brush, the flow is used, feared this responsibility not to be sure.
The browsers who are playing "train ticket" ads should think about where the next user's pain point is.
4. Twitter shares high innovation
Twitter's shares surged 9.32% in Monday amid a flurry of advertising products that boosted investors ' prospects for the company's revenue growth, hitting a 50-dollar mark that hit a record high of $26.77 billion trillion since its initial public offering on November 7.
Twitter has been constantly introducing new features to advertisers to help them reach more than 200 million of the company's user base. Last week, Twitter launched a "redirect" (retargeted) ad, which was targeted again by users who browsed the customer's site, –twitter the type of advertising that began this July, and Twitter's "killer" is its identification of cross device logins.
According to Bloomberg statistics, market analysts are now generally predicting that Twitter, headquartered in San Francisco, will not be profitable until 2016. Twitter's current share price is about 25 times times its 2014 revenue forecast. According to the market rate, Twitter is much higher than its rivals Facebook and LinkedIn, which has a market turnout of 12 times and 13 times times respectively.
Twitter's high share price boom and its latest "killer"-the identification of cross-device logins, thus increasing the collection and analysis of social-networking data, are also preparing Twitter to woo advertisers and make profits.