Facebook used your Instagram hashtags to teach its AI image recognition

During the opening F8 2018 keynote, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company’s latest Instagram updates: Spotify integration, AI-based anti-bullying comment filters, AR camera effects and four-way video chat.  During the Day 2 keynote, Facebook revealed how your daily Instagram updates are giving its AI technology a deep-learning crash course in image recognition—one that’s …