Value of Facebook consists of two things, you and your data. It is not good for long term strategy of Facebook to hurt either.

Here are some things where smart AI could help: 1. Better filtering of spam bots. 2. Better filtering of ads that would significantly improve ad quality. 3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: which events to attend, your writing style, and filters immediate notifications based on personalized importance score.

Or Facebook could exploit machine learning/AI techniques to simply drive up click through ratio on their ads.

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." -- Nathaniel Borenstein

Completely agreed. Not looking that forward to this.

It looks like they don't have anything particularly taxing compared to the likes of Google. There is only so much they can apply to the FB feed. Graph search while cool still isn't that advanced.

Yann deals with Machine Learning. His specialty (simplified) was pattern recognition in images (first handwriting then objects).

I'd imagine projects that group similar topics (i.e. these people are all in front of the Great Pyramids or these people are all taking pictures of their babies) which probably will help group/filter content

although I agree - it might be worth considering it's creepy because of the uncanny valley