Zuckerberg builds AI assistant for his home named Jarvis
 

Understands requests using text and voice

In a Facebook blog post published Monday morning, Mark Zuckerberg described some of the inner workings behind his personal home automation AI assistant, a personal challenge he set out to complete in 2016 to run his home.

Taking inspiration from Marvel’s Iron Man comic book series, he named his assistant Jarvis and began coding using Python, PHP and Objective C, using hints from some recent machine learning advancements in natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition and reinforcement learning. The ultimate goal of the project was to evaluate the present state of AI technologies – “where we’re further along than people realize and where we’re still a long ways off,” he said.



On the surface, Zuckerberg’s custom Jarvis sever box is similar to many do-it-yourself home automation setups capable of dimming lights, adjusting temperature, switching on appliances or adjusting home theater controls. But most of these devices don’t necessary cooperate right out of the box, and he admits that the most complicated aspect of the project was “simply connecting and communicating with all of the different systems in my home.”

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