An American online social media, Facebook giving surprise to everyone, as it is announced to open new artificial intelligence labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh. At the same time, the social media giant offers professors from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University to join the lab. Facebook anticipating that the new researcher will train other AI experts in the respective cities.

A computer science professor at the University of Washington, Dan Weld said, "It is worrisome that they are eating the seed corn." Further, Dan Weld added, "If we lose all our faculty, it will be hard to keep preparing the next generation of researchers."

Facebook's director of A.I. research, Yann LeCun said, "Professors gain a different type of experience in the industry that can have a positive impact on their students and on their research." Further, he added, "Additionally, their connection with industry helps produce new scientific advances that may be difficult to achieve in an academic environment and helps turn those advances into practical technology. Universities are familiar with the concept of faculty with part-time appointments in industry. It is common in medicine, law, and business."

The social media giant already has AI labs in Silicon Valley, Paris, New York and now establishing two more in the global competition for talent. The social media platform has several reasons to be investing in AI. Nowadays, many companies are depending on machine learning so, Facebook also expanding in AI to filter out extremist organizations.

Most of the tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple have poached many professors from universities in the last few years as every day they compete to hire the smartest mind.