Five (5) minutes is the average amount of time that a person has while they are in a coffee shop waiting for their coffee or at the train station waiting for the train to arrive or perhaps at a restaurant waiting for their friends. Five (5) minutes. Facebook is betting on those 5 minutes to surprise and delight you.
According to Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, those five minutes are what Facebook's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Team is looking at refining. Particularly, they want to tweak the algorithm that regulates the social network's News Feed.
Their AI team is working from a MIT Technology Review to incorporate a deep learning technology, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data.
Facebook is employing the ultimate learning method to better understand it's users. Now, if we could just use that technology to figure out why people drive 50 miles per hour in the fast lane!
