New Delhi: The social media giant, Facebook, is planning to push itself further by building a new neural sensor that can read people's minds and convert these thoughts into actions. It has also announced a new tool that summarises new articles into bullets so that readers do not have to spend much time on them, a move that can potentially hamper publishers on the social media platform.
The neural sensor that the company is planning to develop uses resources of CTRL Labs, a company that Facebook had acquired in 2019. The sensor will take the neural signals from the brain through the spinal cord and arms, and right to the wrist. This will allow users to make physical actions based on their thought.
According to Facebook, this innovation in the app will help users holding a virtual object, typing, and controlling a character in a video game.
This has an uncanny similarity to the nascent brain-reading technology that Elon Musk's Neuralink company is working on.
Facebook has been caught in a whirlwind of controversies, including allegations of political inclination in India, discontent among employees and most importantly, the antitrust cases over dominance in the US and other countries.
One of the major controversies was the removal of hate speech, which uses AI-powered tools significantly. However, Facebook is trying to expand to more AI-enabled products, including the new summarising app for news articles.
The media giant had said that some 20,000 employees have joined Facebook this year and that people have begun using Facebook and its services more than ever.
Facebook is trying to use AI for pretty much everything, from curbing the spread of misinformation on its social media platforms to removing hate speech, along with scanning political content. Schroepfer even said that AI is helping Facebook detect 95% of hate speech rampant on the platform.
Facebook is also introducing TLDR (short for Too Long Didn't Read) tool, which is a tool to create a synopsis of news articles, saving readers a good deal of time while reading.