Mark Zuckerberg Introduces His AI Butler, Jarvis To The World
Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed in January this year that he aimed to build a fully-functional, artificial intelligence (AI) system to help run his home and help him with his work, and in just under 12 months, he has achieved his goal. After around 100 hours of work over the course of the year, Zuckerberg has spent this week showing off his AI-powered personal assistant inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant designed by Tony Stark in Marvel’s Iron Man. “So far this year, I’ve built a simple AI that I can talk to on my phone and computer, that can control my home, including lights, temperature, appliances, music and security, that learns my tastes and patterns, that can learn new words and concepts, and that can even entertain Max,” he wrote in a blog post. “It uses several artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition, and reinforcement learning, written in Python, PHP and Objective C.” ...