Facebook’s AI Tool for Squashing Bugs Is Now Open to All

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FACEBOOK USED TO move fast and break things. Now it’s trying to move fast and fix things. To do that, the company developed an artificially intelligent tool called Infer that can spot bugs in its mobile apps before they ever reach customers. And now the company wants everyone to test their software this way.“It looks at the program and makes guesses or hypotheses about the program, the way a human might,” says Peter O’Hearn, Infer’s co-creator.“Static analysis is full of great ideas but also unsolved problems,”. “We hope this can boost collaboration between industry and academia, and get research flowing in both directions.

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The original plan was to build a commercial product based on their work. But when Facebook made an offer to buy the company, O’Hearn says the team realized that they’d be able to make a bigger impact there than they would have been able to as a small startup.

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