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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.
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!
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He stole facebook. He can't actually do anything himself except wear a hoodie and grin like an idiot.
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