When this happens, you will be able to give the robot even more to do. He says that it is those that will “have a great impact on the world” but today, real intelligence is still being figured out.
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Zuckerberg past year announced developing an artificial intelligence assistant would be one of his personal goals for 2016. He called the efforts a personal challenge he had undertaken for 2016 to help him “to learn about the state of artificial intelligence – where we’re further along than people realise and where we’re still a long ways off”. Zuckerberg can use Facebook’s Messenger app to turn lights on and off, play music and open his front gate, as Fast Company reported in another feature.
The Jarvis project places Zuckerberg in the same class as Sutardja as a master tinker.
According to his post, assistants such as Jarvis would not only acquire devices at home to be connected to the internet, they would have to run on common standards. “I’ve never stopped coding, but these days I mostly build personal projects like Jarvis”, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post this week. TechCrunch notes it’s “a pretty big get even for Zuckerberg”. Analysts believe connected devices are on their way to seeing exponential growth. Zuckerberg explained that he did this in two steps. First he had to write code to connect all these different systems that speak different languages, he said. If Mark’s wife Priscilla Chan’s experience with Jarvis is any indication, don’t expect your own AI bot by next Christmas.
He started off with simple words like “bedroom” and “lights” and gradually added synonyms and context.
Mr Zuckerberg asks Jarvis to play some “good Nickelback songs”.
Some of the tasks that Jarvis handles, like facial recognition, seem to be clever custom systems.
To do this, I installed a few cameras at my door that can capture images from all angles. The state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems are language processing, speech recognition and face recognition.
For an AI to be truly fully functional, it’s important that you’re able to communicate with it from anywhere.
I can text anything to my Jarvis bot, and it will instantly be relayed to my Jarvis server and processed.
He says there is a trend toward text communication over voice, and that is going to play an important role in the future of AI interaction.
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Jarvis has voice recognition like the aforementioned Google and Amazon products, but that’s where the similarities end.
