Facebook Will Let Brands Send You Ads If You’ve Messaged Them Before

According to Facebook, if you send a message to a company, they then have permission to send you sponsored messages—or as we humans call them, ads. These will be unprompted “highly targeted, in-context” ads. Businesses that already have chat bots set up can start using the new feature immediately. Source: Facebook Will Let Brands Send Read more about Facebook Will Let Brands Send You Ads If You’ve Messaged Them Before[…]

Lipreading software is 93.4% accurate

Traditional approaches separated the problem into two stages: designing or learning visual features, and prediction. More recent deep lipreading approaches are end-to-end trainable (Wand et al., 2016; Chung & Zisserman, 2016a). All existing works, however, perform only word classification, not sentence-level sequence prediction. Studies have shown that human lipreading performance increases for longer words (Easton Read more about Lipreading software is 93.4% accurate[…]