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Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: As Mark Zuckerberg's personal challenge for 2016, he built Jarvis -- a service similar to Alexa or Google Assistant, but built to do exactly the things he wants to do in his home, and controllable by both voice and Messenger bot. Now that it's mostly complete, he demoed it for Fast Company's Daniel Terdiman. Terdiman writes: "In his January post announcing the Jarvis project, Zuckerberg wrote that he'd set out to build a system allowing him to control everything in the house, including music, lights, and temperature, with his voice. He also wanted Jarvis to let his friends in the house just by looking at their faces when they arrive and to alert him to anything important going on in Max's room. And he hoped to design the system to 'visualize data in VR to help me build better services and lead my organizations [at Facebook] more efficiently.' Now, in December, he has achieved all of that, save for the bit about VR. And it works. However, when he showed off the system to me in person, I learned that it sometimes needs a little coddling. Zuckerberg began by demoing the Messenger bot he'd built as a front end for the system. Using his iPhone, he typed simple commands to turn the lights off and on, and sure enough, they went off and then on. On the other hand, he also built the system to respond to voice commands, via a custom iOS app he'd created, and there, the results were decidedly more inconsistent. He had to tell the system four times to turn the lights off before it got dark."
Works every time. So does my light switch thinking about it
Wow, the guy is a genius. He can TALK to an app and had it turn the lights off? And it only took four tries? Unbelievable. I'll bet Linus couldn't do that!
the Amazon Echo pretty much does a great job of integrating all your smart home devices.
No it doesn't. You need to buy a separate hub, such as a Wink, or Samsung Smarthings, and connect that to your Amazon Echo to bridge from Wifi to ZWave. I have both an Echo and a Google Home (hey, I love gadgets) and both of them have totally lame support for IoT.
"Engineering, make this for me" == "I made this"
Did this guy actually do this entirely on his own?
Yes he did. I live next door to Zuck, and I watched him dig silicate rocks out of his backyard, crush them into sand, smelt his own silicon, and apply the dopants to make transistors. Anything less would have been cheating.
As a bonus, it also backs up all of your personal conversation and impassioned moanings to off-premises storage in sunny Bluffdale, Utah!
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
Attention shift happens as soon as the doorbell rings. If you don't want to miss anything, the response time should be immediate. Either way, blaming innovation on laziness will just undo most of the 20th and 21st century's progress.
Actually, Echo does connect directly to most of the popular IoT devices. It will connect directly to a Nest and I currently have it connected to several WeMo switches in my apartment without using a hub. The only hub I have is a harmony hub to control the channels on my TV and Roku.
It will connect directly to a Nest
Anything can connect to a Nest. I can connect directly with my cellphone or a laptop. When people talk about "IoT" they usually don't mean an expensive device like a Nest, with a full computer built in. They mean things like light bulbs, door locks, and motion sensors. Without a separate hub, neither an Amazon Echo nor a Google Home can connect to any of those. With a separate hub, you don't need an Echo or Home, because you can control them through the hub with your cellphone.
Come on people (like MZ), admit it - you just want to be a brain in vat, and do everything by thought. Turn your fucking lights off with a switch, like everyone else. Go to the door and greet your fucking friends, if they're your friends, and you actually have any. Really, this is just ridiculous. It is hard to imagine anything more unimportant.
The point of home automation is to (a) integrate various technologies around the home while (b) providing a convenient, intuitive, easy to use interface for doing so. I'm sure the same objections were made in the past about *every* technological advance...
There are legitimate concerns when it comes to the hows and whys of home automation... but this reflexive nay-saying isn't among them. It's just lazy objection for objection's sake.
wants to be the first monkey to touch the monolith
I don't get modpoints anymore but I would mod you up.
1984 isn't required reading - and that's a shame.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
And it's news because he's got a high profile full time job.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff which, ... umm, ok move on folks
The problem with your argument is that the demos today are exactly the same as the demos from 15 years ago (seriously I was doing this same basic automation commands for light on/off with off the shelf x10 equipment and perl web interfaces at university in 2010 - and that want even in the CS program).
Voice recognition libraries were available even then with Dragonspeak integration. Add the contextual understanding and there might be something here - but as of right now he's bragging about problems solved since before we had iPhones.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
When people talk about "IoT" they usually don't mean an expensive device like a Nest, with a full computer built in.
You can get enough computer to do IoT stuff with WiFi for two bucks on eBay. It literally costs less than the display module, or a decent antenna.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
He stole facebook. He can't actually do anything himself except wear a hoodie and grin like an idiot.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Echo does connect directly to most of the popular IoT devices.
You have a very strange definition of both most, and popular.
Nest fits that description, but the rest of the "most popular" IoT devices are left in the dust.
Actually you have a strange definition of "connect" and "directly" too. Nothing connects directly to a nest. Things connect to Nest's web based API including the Nest Thermostat and other devices themselves. You never talk directly to a Nest which is a little bit of a "eveything is IoT connected" joke.
I know Mark wants to be Tony Stark... but he is more akin to Gus Gorman
Kind of my thought.
"I am Iron Douche."
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
"Nobody in the HA crowd has ever been able to offer a coherent value proposition for how HA could improve *my* life that would in any way be useful to *me*. Until this changes I will continue to blindly assume HA is a pointless waste of time and money with increasingly massive malware/privacy issues."
It's not the first time someone has bragged about their willful ignorance.
Saying that there is no value proposition to HA is like saying there is no point in painting the walls different colors. If the extent of your lighting is limited to a single ceiling fixture in your room then lighting automation, as an example, is not valuable to you. This reflects more on your lack of sophistication than on HA's value proposition. HA is a tool to achieve desirable ends, not an end in itself, and the problem here is your lack of vision.
"He had to tell the system four times to turn the lights off before it got dark."
And *that* time he he called Jarvis by its nickname, "Alexa".
to err is human, to forgive is divine, to forget is... umm...
I think its cool that a guy with essentially unlimited resources wants to get his hands dirty and do something real for himself. It sounds like he didn't use an army of developers to develop a commercial product, but that he whipped up something on his own to gain a better understanding of what the challenges are for machine learning and a home control system.
Greed is the root of all evil.