Facebook demonstrated a new mobile app concept , showing off the company 's latest achievements in artificial intelligence . A short video demonstrates how the new technology called Visual Q&A , allows users to ask the app questions about photos on Facebook . But Facebook has nearly a billion and a half users now. Using facial recognition , the App processes the question and responds with an answer . According to Facebook , " 285 million people globally who have low vision capabilities or the 40 million who are blind " could benefit from this technology .
Facebook demonstrated a new mobile app concept , showing off the company 's latest achievements in artificial intelligence . A short video demonstrates how the new technology called Visual Q&A , allows users to ask the app questions about photos on Facebook . Using facial recognition , the App processes the question and responds with an answer . According to Facebook , " 285 million people globally who have low vision capabilities or the 40 million who are blind " could benefit from this technology .