Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - AI Announcements at F8

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🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Facebook’s AI announcements from F8, LG announces G7 ThinQ, Apple earnings analysis, Snap earnings analysis, the Pentagon blocks the sale of Chinese phones, and can AI predict the next Avengers: Infinity War? Stories from: @ashleyrcarman, @DanielEran Tweets from: @BenedictEvans, @lexnfx Links:Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy (WSJ)Telegram Messaging App Scraps Plans for Public Coin Offering (WSJ)LG’s G7 ThinQ preserves the headphone jack and introduces a notch (The Verge)Pandora Learns the Cost of Ads, and of Subscriptions (Wired)Over 30? You're Too Old For Tech Jobs In China (Bloomberg)Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War? (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018. Today, more news from F8
0:14.0	LG announces the G7 thin cue
0:17.0	Apple earnings analysis snap earnings analysis
0:21.0	the Pentagon blocks the sale of Chinese phones, and can AI predict the next
0:26.6	Avengers infinity war?
0:28.6	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Tech.
0:38.0	So yesterday was about policy changes, Mayacalpas and consumer-facing product announcements,
0:42.0	but day two of F8 was focused on... and consumer-facing product announcements.
0:43.0	But day two of F8 was focused on Facebook's technology
0:46.2	and the cool things developers can do with it.
0:49.4	There were announcements around PieTorch 1.0, Facebook's open source framework for AI development,
0:56.0	which will be available in beta in the next few months.
1:00.0	And the company spoke again about how it is using AI and machine learning to proactively flag bad content on its platforms.
1:07.0	Facebook said it increasingly doesn't have to wait for bad content to be reported because its algorithms can now take down postings before
1:15.1	anyone even sees them.
1:17.2	Facebook also talked about how it is using billions of publicly posted Instagram photos
1:21.9	to help train its AI-based image
1:24.3	recognition models. So if you've posted a public picture on Instagram and
1:28.8	annotated it with a hashtag, you've been helping them train some of the algorithms that are now
1:34.7	being deployed to assist in content moderation and perhaps improve search
1:39.4	functionality down the road. Last night Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with a group of media executives after delivering his keynote speech at F8.
1:49.0	Zuckerberg told the assembled scribes that this year Facebook intends to invest
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