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Bobby Johnson

Prior to co-founding behavioral analytics company Interana, Bobby led infrastructure at Facebook, where he built the systems that allowed Facebook to scale from a million to a billion users. Bobby was also responsible for the development of key open source big data technologies such as Scribe, Cassandra and Hive.

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Banishing Trolls at The New York Times: How AI is Helping Humans Take Out the Trash

Bobby Johnson · October 25, 2017

AI is already making inroads. For example, it’s now helping the human reviewers at The New York Times ferret out the trolls. Unlike the pessimistic view that robots will wipe us from the planet, this is a great example of how AI can ease our everyday lives. Instead of replacing