you when you are drunk and doing something stupid? Well, hark, Facebook is making an attempt to prevent this.
Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University, who
oversees Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research lab, wants to build a
“digital assistant” that will recognize if you have been drinking and intervene
if you are about to upload a potentially embarrassing snap.
Speaking to Wired, LeCrun explained that the digital assistant would be
there to essentially tap you on the shoulder to ask, “are you sure you want
your boss and your mother to see this?”
“Imagine that you had an intelligent digital assistant
which would mediate your interaction with your friends, and also with content
on Facebook,” Mr LeCrun said.
Facebook is already able to recognise your face and your
friends in order to easily tag them. But LeCrun’s digital assistant would
take the so-called “deep learning” technology even further making it possible
for the social media site to decipher between your drunken self and sober self.
The assistant could also protect users from their friends,
warning users if a friend is about to upload a potentially embarrassing image
of you.
Launching the AI lab last year, LeCrun said: “Facebook has
created a new research laboratory with the ambitious, long-term goal of
bringing about major advances in Artificial Intelligence.”
LeCrun’s digital assistant is currently in the early
development stages, but its introduction onto the social networking site could
one day become a reality.
This is one of the really positive things that Facebook has been working on and something that will help keep a lot of people out of trouble, especially during the holiday season.
