Facebook to double size of AI research staff by 2020, increase medical imaging efforts
Facebook is planning to double the size of its Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) division by the year 2020 and grow to have 400 employees, according to a recent report by Forbes.
In the last few months, Facebook has made strides in artificial intelligence (AI) research and technology, including a recent partnership with NYU’s School of Medicine to increase the speed of MRI scans with AI.
The social network is competing against Google, Apple and Amazon to hire new team members through FAIR, however it hasn’t grown at the same rate as other AI labs like DeepMind or GoogleBrain, according to the article.
"It's a market supply; we only really go for the very best people and there's only so many of them on the market each year so there's a limitation there,” Rob Regus, head of FAIR in New York told Forbes. “There are people who they [DeepMind] make offers to who we don't. We have huge battles with them for the best talent. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose."
Read Forbes’ entire story below.
A recent graduate from Dominican University (IL) with a bachelor’s in journalism, Melissa joined TriMed’s Chicago team in 2017 covering all aspects of health imaging. She’s a fan of singing and playing guitar, elephants, a good cup of tea, and her golden retriever Cooper.