I’m sure you’ve heard the news:a Facebook smartwatch is on the way. And you know how this makes me feel? Absolutely fantastic. There are few things I’d like more than for the company to track my every single movement and access a raft of health data — and what better way of doing that is there than a Facebook smartwatch? But… I have a dilemma. Ideally, I’d like to give Facebook more of my personal data than a simple wrist-bound wearable can deliver....

There is an inherent problem to any algorithm. As good as they might have gotten, there are intricacies to human behavior that they don’t yet understand.Facebookhas, in its seemingly relentless push to make you believe that it knows what’s best for you, decided to hide a number of things from your feed. For some people, the machine decided what they should and shouldn’t see might be ok. For the rest of us sentient, free-thinking humans, it’s highly annoying....

Dustin Mokovitz. He’s the overnight billionaire that Facebook built. But according to aninterview with Forbes, you’d never know it. So what’s a billionaire to do? Oh, and he helped build the antithesis to Facebook, known asAsana. At 27 years old, he’s the youngest billionaire in the US and he’s eager to help do things for the greater good. He says that he plans to die broke, in fact: “So the idea is to have a foundation that runs out of money by the end of my life or shortly after....

Facebook will double its number of acquisitions from last year, focus on design, website reliability and roll out new mobile apps and services to ensure it remains the world’s most popular social network,Bloomberg reports. With Google+ and Twitter iterating their own services to capture users from rival networks, Facebook believes that a focus on adding talent to its team, supporting the growing number of mobile users and making sure the social network runs smoothly is key to keeping the company one step ahead of its competition, says Vaughan Smith, Facebook’s director of corporate development....

Facebook’s chief AI scientist says GPT-3 is ‘not very good’ as a dialog system A new study showed some expectations for the model are unrealistic How did GPT-3 perform? The researchers found that GPT-3 seemed helpful in finding information in long documents and in basic admin tasks such as appointment booking. But it lacked the memory, logic, and understanding of time for many more specific questions. Nabla also found that GPT-3 was an unreliable Q&A support tool for doctors, dangerously oversimplified medical documentation analysis, and struggled to associate causes with consequences....