Facebook’s AI convincingly inserts people into photos

In a paper published last week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists affiliated with Facebook AI Research and Tel Aviv University propose a novel technique for inserting people into existing images in a photorealistic, high-resolution way. It taps AI that creates a semantic map of a person and estimates the pose of other people in […]

Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text

In a technical paper published this week, Facebook researchers describe a framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several dimensions, which they used to annotate data sets and pre-trained and evaluate gender bias classifiers. If the experimental results are any indication, the team’s work might shed light on offensive language in terms of genderedness, […]

Facebook’s Climate Conversation Map reveals reactions to environmental news

In partnership with organizations including the World Resources Institute and the Yale Program on Climate Change, Facebook today released the Climate Conversation Map, a set of maps that tap aggregated, anonymized data to highlight where, when, and how often users share or react to climate change-related links. It’s available by request to research partners and […]