Zuckerberg Pokes Fun at Himself, Touts New Apps at F8

Facebook CEO introduces several new functions, including a dating app, one that allows a group to share watching videos in real time, and new ways natural language processing and artificial intelligence will be used in future apps. On Day 1 of its annual F8 conference, Facebook on May 1 explained how it is improving its stewardship of user data and showed its development community an impressive list of new projects upon which it wants to focus during the next few years. At the two-day event at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos delivered a keynote address that explained how Facebook is securing itself and its user data in the face of international criticism over protection of users' personal data. Stamos also provided insights and ideas for the developers in the audience about steps they can take that benefit from the lessons learned by Facebook. n his part of the keynote, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg introduced several new functions, including a dating app, another that allows a group to share watching videos in real time, and new ways natural language processing and artificial intelligence will be used in future apps. As one might expect, the use of AI and machine learning figure prominently in a lot of these new initiatives, most of which are now in testing, with productization coming later this year or in 2019. The social network has absorbed criticism in recent months regarding its personal data security liabilities, thanks mainly to the misuse of data from about 87 million people collected on the social network by a research firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.