Gallery: AI Helps Facebook's Internet Drones Find Where the People Are

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    Facebook uses artifical intelligence to analyze satellite images of the Earth and determine where people are living. Then it can build drones and satellites that can deliver Internet access to all those people in the most efficient way.
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    When Facebook's neural networks find evidence of humans, the company labels an image with yellows, oranges, and reds.
  • As you zoom out from this heatmap you can see where the humans are.
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    As you zoom out from this heatmap, you can see where the humans are.
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    The result is an unusally good map of population densities.
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