With Google, Amazon and other tech giants ramping up artificial intelligence (AI), Alpha Go’s victory in the game of Go has made the technology a hot topic in society. However, the world’s largest social networking platform, Facebook, has slowed down in the field of ARTIFICIAL intelligence.
Facebook has scaled back its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions to focus on practical applications of the technology, according to the Theregister.
Why is Facebook doing this? — because its artificial intelligence robots have a 70 percent failure rate in actual use!
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Last April, Facebook showed off Messenger IM, an instant messaging bot, at its developer conference. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had high hopes for the robot at the time. It is seen as part of the chatbot arms race that the company is aggressively pursuing.
For all the hype and optimism about the future of the robot race, the reality is looking a bit grim.
In the first phase of the chatbot app, Facebook’s bots parse conversations and insert relevant external links into Messenger conversations.
In tests, the technology met only about 30% of requests without human intervention, according to a Silicon Valley Information report. That’s not the only problem. “Robots built by outside developers also have problems understanding human requests that are not at a sufficiently developed level. The practical application of this technology has been disappointing.”
Now, Facebook’s chatbots are trying to get back to just understanding conversations with people.
“Compared to last year, they are talking closer to reality.” “A source familiar with the situation told theregister. The tech team is now looking at ways to try to activate commercial use within Messenger, which is a far more modest ambition than “dominating the AI space.”
Richard Windsor, an analyst at Edison Investment Research, describes Facebook as a “laggard in AI.” “Fake news, zombie accounts, Facebook IM, all of that supports my point: When Facebook tries to automate its operating system, things always go wrong. “The problem isn’t that Facebook doesn’t have the right technical talent. It’s just that the company hasn’t been exploring AI long enough.”
Syd Lawrence, a British entrepreneur whose company, The Bot Platform, works closely with Facebook, was an early access partner for Facebook’s chatbot Platform. He thinks it makes sense for Facebook to reduce its technological push for AI and focus instead on its use.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
“The whole AI hype is horribly off base, as these things can really be really useful and powerful,” Lawrence said. But they are definitely not AI. We are still a long way from practical AI applications.”
“There’s something terribly wrong with AI chat and even chatbots,” he said. I really wish we could shelve the chatbot technology. Nobody wants to talk to a machine.”