Facebook working to build an artificial brain for its virtual personal assistant

Among its accomplishments: the development of software that can analyze a photo and answer questions about what it shows, or study a picture of toy blocks and predict whether they will fall over.
Facebook is studying the ancient Chinese game of Go for insights as it works on building an artificial brain, one that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can also sort through a mountain of photos, videos and comments posted by its next billion or so users.
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