By Joseph Varghese/Staff Reporter

Technology will get deeply integrated with the daily lives of human beings far more closely than in the past, Artificial Intelligence researcher and Facebook's director of engineering Serkan Piantino predicted on Sunday.
“Expect computers to answer much more human questions, to be more nuanced and integrated into our lives in the near future” explained Facebook's New York site director during an interaction with the students and staff of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q).
Speaking on ‘The Future of Computing’ to an audience of predominantly students, Piantino, said “The questions that we are asking of technology, are getting more complicated. Every direction you look in computer science, there is a frontier that is accessible for the student researcher.”
The developer of the Multifeed system powering Facebook News Feed noted that privacy was a question everyone was raising about Facebook but there are enough tools to manage privacy in the system.
“While we do store a lot of human moments, we give them the best tools to manage their privacy. People should learn how to control the data. We have a huge team that protects our users from those who use Facebook maliciously,” he stated.
Piantino, who also developed the EdgeRank algorithm for ranking social content, pointed out that Artificial Intelligence is one of the hottest topics discussed at many levels at present.
“The future will be more focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, as well as security aspects. The hottest thing is Artificial Intelligence research. It can lead to deep learning and security topics. The future will be very much different from the past.”
Piantino went on to suggest that technology will rapidly change in the coming years due to various reasons.“Demands that you put on technology, rapidly get closer to what human beings want in their daily lives. We are constantly prototyping things, we have a dashboard where you can turn on all sorts of quirky things,” he stressed.
The researcher who leads the infrastructure engineering behind Timeline and Messenger also described the changes in technology in the last one or two decades and how the web was carried from computers into mobiles.
"I think we will start to see more nuanced uses for mobile technology, where it is more about augmenting life than being an escape. Having access to the internet is going to be transformative in the developing world.”
Piantino also told the audience that as far as he was concerned, the best thing about working at Facebook was to work on a lot of different things that were unknown to him earlier.
The event was moderated by Khaled Harras, associate teaching professor of computer science at CMU-Q.