Facebook is reportedly building a tool called TLDR that will read and summarize news articles for you
Facebook is reportedly building a tool called TLDR that will read and summarize news articles for you
Isobel Asher HamiltonDec 16, 2020, 18:50 IST
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Facebook told employees at a company-wide meeting that it s working on a tool that will read articles and automatically generate summaries of them for users, Buzzfeed reported.
The
AI assistant tool is called
TLDR (Too Long Didn t Read), and will be audio-enabled so it can read its bullet-pointed summaries out loud.
Facebook users will supposedly also be able to ask the tool questions about the
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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that criticism of Facebook had hurt staff morale, saying public scrutiny comes with the territory. Reuters pic
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PALO ALTO, Dec 16 Facebook Inc’s top executives sought to rally employees around business priorities like commerce and virtual reality at a year-end meeting yesterday, playing down criticism faced this year of the company’s record on false and violent speech.
“The way out is through. I believe the only way forward is to keep working,” Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees, according to audio of the address heard by Reuters.
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Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it’s developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won’t have to read them. It also laid out early plans for a neural sensor to detect people’s thoughts and translate them into action.
Those announcements and product demos were part of an end-of-year, companywide meeting at the social networking giant, whose year has been pockmarked by controversy, employee discontent, and multiple state and federal antitrust lawsuits. BuzzFeed News obtained audio of the meeting, which was not public but was broadcast virtually to thousands of employees.
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This tech will let users type with mind and other things.
Facebook has also launched TLDR tool to summarise news articles.
Facebook is apparently planning to build a new neural sensor that can read people s minds and convert these thoughts into actions. This new project will push the social media giant further into the artificial intelligence domain, some instances of which did not go well with Facebook. Facebook has also announced a new tool that summarises news articles into bullets so that readers do not have to spend much time on them, a move that can potentially impact publishers on the social media platform.