San Francisco: Facebook intends to develop its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips to facilitate faster computing needed to achieve new AI breakthroughs like digital assistants with common sense, said a media report.
In an interview with The Financial Times, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun indicated that the social networking giant is already developing its own custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips to support its AI software.
“Facebook has been known to build its hardware when required — build its own ASIC, for instance. If there’s any stone unturned, we’re going to work on it,” Forbes quoted LeCun as saying in the interview on Monday.
According to a report by Fortune, LeCun will outline his vision for AI’s future in a new research paper he is expected to present at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on February 25.
–IANS