Yann LeCun, the Senior Scientist for Artificial Intelligence on Facebook, said today at the Viva Technology conference in the French capital that the company is working on its own energy-efficient processor specializing in the analysis and filtering of live video content.
The objective is that this specific processor allows for the analysis and removal of parts of live video content that violate social network policies as they occur, without the need for high energy consumption, as is currently the case using conventional processors.
For example, the processor itself could eliminate aspects such as live suicide attempts, hate messages, and many other possibilities that Facebook has needed to address along the way through the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms on servers with third-party processors, within a live broadcast via Facebook Live.
Facebook would benefit directly from this, not only by avoiding content that does not comply with the rules of its platform and its obvious energy savings in the process but also by relying less on conventional solutions from processor manufacturers, such as Intel or Samsung, among others. Facebook thus enters a dynamic, like other technology companies, which are also working on efficient processors for specific processes.
As Bloomberg points out, Facebook is not the first time it has worked on its own hardware solutions, where it actually designs its own servers and other elements for its data centres.