‘One of our goals for the next five to 10 years,’ Zuckerberg told Fast Company, ‘is to basically get better than human level at all of the primary human senses: vision, hearing, language, general cognition.

‘Taste and smell, we’re not that worried about,’ he deadpaned. ‘For now.’ 

The firm hopes to be able to take advantage of the vast amount of data people are producing every day.