Facebook Offers Artificial Intelligence Tech to Open Source Group

Facebook said that it was donating for public use several powerful tools for computers, including the means to go through huge amounts of data, looking for common elements of information. The products, used in a so-called neural network of machines, can speed pattern recognition by up to 23.5 times, Facebook said. The tools will be donated to Torch, an open source software project that is focused on a kind of data analysis known as deep learning.