Inspired by Iron Man\u2019s artificial assistant (AI) \u201cJarvis\u201d and his capabilities, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has coded and developed his own \u201cJarvis\u201d to run his home.<\/p>\n
In a blog post, Zuckerberg said that his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run his home\u2014like Jarvis in \u201cIron Man\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201dMy goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence\u2014where we are further along than people realise and where we are still a long ways off,\u201d he wrote in the post on Monday.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg built a simple AI that he can talk to on his phone and computer, can control his home, including lights, temperature, appliances, music and security, that learned his tastes and can even entertain his daughter Max.<\/p>\n
The system he developed uses several artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition and reinforcement learning, written in Python, PHP and Objective C.<\/p>\n
Also, Zuckerberg wrote code to connect systems, such as for light and music in his home, which all speak different languages and protocols.<\/p>\n
\u201dI had to reverse engineer APIs for some of these to even get to the point where I could issue a command from my computer to turn the lights on or get a song to play,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n
The Facebook CEO realised that for assistants like \u201cJarvis\u201d to be able to control everything in homes for more people, the devices must be connected for which common APIs and standards for the devices to talk to each other must be developed.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg also faced a challenge in teaching his AI contextual understanding.<\/p>\n
\u201dUnderstanding context is important for any AI. For example, when I tell it to turn the AC up in \u201cmy office\u201d, that means something completely different from when Priscilla (Zuckerberg\u2019s wife) tells it the exact same thing. That one caused some issues!\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe more context an AI has, the better it can handle open-ended requests. At this point, I mostly just ask Jarvis to \u2018play me some music\u2019 and by looking at my past listening patterns, it mostly nails something I\u2019d want to hear,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg also worked on vision and face recognition, programmed Jarvis on his computer and wrote for code for voice and speech recognition.<\/p>\n
He said he would continue to improve Jarvis since he uses it every day.<\/p>\n
\u201dIn the near term, the clearest next steps are building an Android app, setting up Jarvis voice terminals in more rooms around my home and connecting more appliances,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n
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