{"id":3262,"date":"2017-03-05T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2017-03-05T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:26:25","slug":"facebook-turns-artificial-intelligence-tackle-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/05\/facebook-turns-artificial-intelligence-tackle-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook turns to artificial intelligence to tackle suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\" style=\"transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);\">Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence and update its tools and services to help prevent suicides among its users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest social media network said it plans to integrate its existing suicide prevention tools for Facebook posts into its live-streaming feature, Facebook Live, and its Messenger service.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence will be used to help spot users with suicidal tendencies, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lxYeFZ\">bit.ly\/2lxYeFZ<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In January, a 14-year-old foster child in Florida broadcast her suicide reportedly on Facebook Live, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is already using artificial intelligence to monitor offensive material in live video streams.<\/p>\n<p>The company said on Wednesday that the updated tools would give an option to users watching a live video to reach out to the person directly and report the video to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Inc (<span id=\"symbol_FB.O_0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=FB.O\">FB.O<\/a><\/span>) will also provide resources, which include reaching out to a friend and contacting a help line, to the user reporting the live video.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for 15-29 year olds.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide rates jumped 24 percent in the United States between 1999 and 2014 after a period of nearly consistent decline, according to a National Center for Health Statistics study.\u2014Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Image: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence and update its tools and services to help prevent suicides among its users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}