前沿丨人工智能在Facebook：可帮助任何人建立可看到的计算机

当你看到一个场景，你的大脑开始理解你看到的所有元素，包括树、手写、你的自行车哥们——即使是最先进的电脑与之相比也是相形见绌。

Facebook人工智能计划曝光

When you look at a scene, your brain makes sense of all the elements — trees, handwriting, your biking buddy Josh — with an ease that puts even the most advanced computers to shame.

当你看到一个场景，你的大脑开始理解你看到的所有元素，包括树、手写、你的自行车哥们——即使是最先进的电脑与之相比也是相形见绌。

Now Facebook is sharing artificial intelligence technology that helps digital vision come a step closer.

现在Facebook正在共享的人工智能技术可以促进数码视界进一步到来。

The company said Thursday it has developed technology that can figure out the boundaries of objects in a photo, a task called segmentation, and released it as open-source software that anyone can use or modify for their own ends.

Facebook公司在周四表示，它已经开发的技术可以计算出物体的边界照片，这项任务称为细分任务。它作为开源软件的发行让任何人都可以使用或者修改自己的目标。

It's not the kind of thing you'll install on your PC or find on an app store. But by sharing this with any programmer, Facebook could help bring computer vision to all kinds of projects: drones that avoid collisions, camera apps that write their own photo captions, instruments that spot problems in medical scans, and self-driving cars that know the difference between a fire hydrant and a child.

它不是那种你会在电脑或者在苹果商店里找到的事物。但是它可以由任何的程序员进行分享，脸书可以帮助把计算机视觉带到所有领域：避免冲突、相机应用软件等可以写到无人驾驶飞机上，或者医学扫描上以及自驾汽车上，同时它还能分辨出消防栓和孩子之间的区别。

A decade ago, this kind of technology would have been a closely guarded company secret. No more.

10年前，这种技术是一个公司的高级机密，而现在却不再是了。

"It's our hope that others will be able to work with us to improve our tools and technologies," said Piotr Dollar, a research scientist with Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research. "Open collaboration helps foster innovation for future designs, putting us all one step closer to building complex AI systems that bring this kind of innovation to our users."

“其他人可以帮助我们一起来提升工具和技术是我们的期望，”Facebook人工智能研究所的专家Piotr Dollar表示。“开放式合作有助于促进创新为未来的设计，这样的合作让我们都进一步建设复杂的人工智能系统，它还能帮助我们的用户进行革新。”

来源丨http://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-ai-tech-now-helps-anyone-build-computers-that-can-see/

本期翻译丨彭步云



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