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Zuckerberg To Build Personal AI For Help At Home and Work (facebook.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the jarvis-where-are-my-pants dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is planning on building his own personal assistant AI, recreating a system similar to that of the Jarvis butler featured in Marvel's Iron Man franchise. Zuckerberg commented that as a personal challenge for 2016, he would construct a "simple AI" to assist him at home and at work, and share his progress the course of the year. The Facebook founder said he build on existing technology to develop his AI, before teaching it to understand his voice to be able to control home appliances, such as a music system, lighting, and air conditioning.

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  1. Jarvis or Siri? by Fusen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is quite a large jump between saying "I'm going to build my own AI like Jarvis from Iron Man" and then saying "I'll use this AI to help me turn on the lights or listen to music".

    Is it going to be a glorified Amazon Echo / Apple Siri or will it actually be able to predict what you're doing and what you need help with?

    1. Re: Jarvis or Siri? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Totally. Another intentionally misleading headline about the king of spoiled brats. Yawn. The day Zuckerberg develops something useful is the day . . . Lol! Who are we kidding? That'll never happen with this ape. ;)

    2. Re:Jarvis or Siri? by tshawkins · · Score: 3, Interesting

      http://jasperproject.github.io...

      Raspberry pi and a microphone.

    3. Re:Jarvis or Siri? by jellomizer · · Score: 2

      Why not just get a human butler.
      Sure a butler is a luxury that the common man cannot afford, but for someone like him, who has so many people already on payroll, is it really that bad of an idea to have your own butler, to manage your home, and take care of things, so you as CEO can focus more on work, or what little free time you have with your family.

      As a CEO, he may not be smart of effective, or a good person, but every CEO I have met are very busy people, to have a glitchy assistant is a waste of his time. And it better off hiring staff to manage his estate.

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    4. Re:Jarvis or Siri? by chihowa · · Score: 2

      He didn't claim that such a thing didn't exist. He claimed that it is "a bit weird and intrusive". That, historically, others have been able to treat this as a standard and not find it intrusive only attests to the power of lifelong acclimatization and the dehumanization inherent in caste systems.

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  2. Starving for attention... by denzacar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...a sociopath decides to compare himself to a comicbook hero, who is also portrayed as a sociopath.
    Lacking actual comparison points he decides to pretend to create artificial intelligence.

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  3. No big deal by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its just a fleshlight with a vibrator attached.

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  4. the difference between Jarvis & Zuckerbot... by Yonder+Way · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...is that Zuckerberg is no Tony Stark. He had one good idea, and the right opportunity. Stark, though fictional, was an exceptional genius that had more brilliant ideas than time in which to realize them.

  5. Bollox by vikingpower · · Score: 2

    What Zuckerberg wants is a glorified piece of deterministic software. Not an AI. Just plain media-whoring.

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  6. Zuckerberg != Tony Stark by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 2

    Somebody should tell Zuckerberg that if he wants to channel Tony Stark, then he really needs to come up with an ARC reactor and some powered armor. Without them, he's just another douchey asshole*, whether he has JARVIS at home or not.

    *As a point of fact, Stan Lee made Stark a raging asshole quite intentionally. It was a challenge to himself as to whether he could get readers to like the character nonetheless.

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  7. Re: Been there...ugh by MasterOfGoingFaster · · Score: 2

    The existing electrical system has zero current flowing, then flows the required amount when you plug in an appliance and turn it on. No computer or chips needed.

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