Experts are sceptical about the extent to which AI tools could be effective in curbing fake news, given that Facebook’s AI engine is primarily trained to recognise English.“If the whole country speaks the same language, it is not a problem. Facebook has not shared updated user numbers since then.On the use of AI in weeding out fake news, Abraham says that such tools usually work only in languages where there is a history of natural language processing. “Languages like English have a huge corpora (large databases of digitised content from the language). In such cases, the AI analyses the language and will be more accurate,” said Abraham. For many Indian languages, the basic infrastructure doesn’t exist.”“I don’t know exactly what FB claimed.

Source: Economic Times April 13, 2018 03:11 UTC