Facebook wants to flex its artificial intelligence muscle even more, and it's looking to university towns to help.
The social networking giant is opening two new offices in Seattle and Pittsburgh, The New York Times reported Friday and Facebook confirmed, as part of an expanded effort to attract AI researchers and experts. The two cities are close to The University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University, both of which are known for their AI research programs.
One thing Facebook hopes to make a standard in its labs is that those who come from academia will be able to continue their work at the school in addition to their efforts at Facebook.
"Professors gain a different type of experience in industry that can have a positive impact on their students and on their research," Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of AI research, said in a statement. "Conversely, their connection with industry helps produce new scientific advances that may be difficult to achieve in an academic environment, and helps turn those advances into practical technology."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:00AM (1 child)
Who can afford California? You are either filthy rich, or homeless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:16PM
These companies will make the professors filthy rich, so that is not a problem.
Many of the remote-from-headquarters corporate research facilities are created because there is a professor the company is excited about, but he refuses to move his family or abandon his students.